Cyril Connolly Quotes

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

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

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

I thought men like that shot themselves.

If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

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

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

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.

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.

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

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

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.

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide.

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.

I'll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill.

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are.