"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Hemmingway
"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
Thomas Szasz
"...I felt sad, because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something that nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."
Dana-Christene Umanetz
"Life Sucks, then you get cancer and die."
Joe Smith
"Life is my jail, Death is my pardon."
Laurie Ann Theresa Buckley
"I've fallen, and I can't get up."
anonymous
"Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life."
Seneca, Epistulae Morales
"Every person's fight with death is lost before it begins. What makes the struggle worthwhile, therefore, cannot lie in the outcome. It lies in the dignity with which the fight is waged and the way it finds an end."
Joseph Fletcher
"Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide are as rare as carefully planned acts of homicide."
Erwin Stengel
"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well."
Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus
"It seemed like a good idea...at the time."
anonymous
"Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank, but that's not the same thing."
Joseph Conrad
"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I want to kill myself, but I don't want to be dead. I mean, I want to be dead, but I don't want to be dead forever, I only want to be dead until my eighteenth birthday."
A 15 year old
"Most things, except agriculture, can wait."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"It is not a thing to do while one is not in one's best mind. Never kill yourself while you are suicidal."
Edwin Shneidman
"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done."
Aaron Burr
"Death is my final civil liberty, and I do not choose to surrender it to the state, a church or a physician."
Frederick Ellis
"Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse."
Seneca
"I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient."
Christiaan Barnard