Philip Roth Quotes

Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.

Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.

I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)

The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.

I once talked about wanting to kill myself, but I don't think I was ever really planning on doing it. It was just comforting to know that I could.

I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.

Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

Have you made any plans? Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself. All those things together? It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.