Quotes on SuicideQuotes on suicide guide you to understand yourself in the light of what others have experienced and shared through their encounter with suicide and its impulse. Some words may resonate more with you than others. Let them give you and others hope and freedom. The question is, whether suicide is the way out or the way in. Ralph Waldo Emerson If I had no sense of humour, I would long ago have committed suicide. Gandhi It isn’t possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed. Carl Jung Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. Karl A. Menninger Drunkenness is temporary suicide. Bertrand Russell Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. Ezra Pound Is Suicide a Choice? No. Choice implies that a suicidal person can reasonably look at alternatives and select among them. If they could rationally choose, it would not be suicide. Suicide happens when all other alternatives are exhausted – when no other choices are seen. Adina Wrobleski
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