SUICIDE

Related Subjects: Death, Despair, Sanity, Insanity

1. I think I will not hang myself today.—G. K. CHESTERTON, A Ballade of Suicide
   

2. The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, The Dance of Life
   

3. One more unfortunate,
   Weary of breath, Rashly importunate,
   Gone to her death!—THOMAS HOOD, The Bridge of Sighs
   

4. Nature puts upon no man an unbearable burden; if her limits be exceeded, man responds by suicide. I have always respected suicide as, a regulator of nature.—EMIL, LUDWIG, I Believe
   

5. A suicide is a person who has considered his own case and decided that he is worthless and who acts as his own judge jury and executioner and he probably knows better than anyone else whether there is justice in the verdict.—DON MARQUIS, archy does his part
   

6. I know some poison I could drink;
   I've often thought I'd taste it;
   But Mother bought it for the sink,
   And drinking it would waste it.—EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, The Cheerful Abstainer
   

7. The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.—NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good & Evil
   

8. Razors pain you;
   Rivers are damp;
   Acids stain you;
   And drugs cause cramp.
   Guns aren't lawful;
   Nooses give;
   Gas smells awful;
   You might as well live.—DOROTHY PARKER, Résumé
   

9. Against self-slaughter
   There is a prohibition so divine
   That cravens my weak hand.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
   

10. O! that this too too solid flesh would melt,
    Thaw and resolve itself into a dew;
    Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
    His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

11. O true apothecary!
    Thy drugs are quick.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

12. Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away.—SOCRATES, Apology
    

13. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.—SOCRATES, Dialogues of Plato
    

14. Those who commit suicide are powerless souls, and allow themselves to be conquered by external causes repugnant to their nature.—SPINOZA, Ethics