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The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.

Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available - those that are easy and quick.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.