I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

A long illness seems to be placed between life and death, in order to make death a comfort both to those who die and to those who remain.

死神の附いた耳へは、意見も道理も入るまいとは思へど、さりとは愚痴の至り

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank – but that's not the same thing.

Death is my final civil liberty, and I do not choose to surrender it to the state, a church or a physician.

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

The Wood of Suicides has changed since my last visit to Hell. I remember it as a tiny grove. Now it resembles a forest.