Suicide Attempt

Famous quotes containing the words suicide and/or attempt:

“However great a man’s fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear- headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance—so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)

“The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)