Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

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

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

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

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.

...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.

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

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

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

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

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.

Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.

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

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide notes than there are suicides. They're like poems in that respect, suicide notes: nearly everyone tries their hand at them some time, with or without the talent. We all write them in our heads. Usually the note is the thing. You complete it, and then resume your time travel. It is the note and not the life that is cancelled out. Or the other way round. Or death. You never can tell, though, can you, with suicide notes.

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.

Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)

We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.