Robert Crumb Quotes

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.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Slow-motion suicide

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

...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.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

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.

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.

There are people who are just suicidal, regardless. They are built to self-destruct. It seems, in my family, like a virus that's resistant to any kind of help or care or medication.

Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.

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.

If he wanted to throw himself in the well, would you follow?

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

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.

When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.