Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

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

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.

I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)

Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.