“There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.”
“So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.”
“I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.”
“I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.”
“I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.”
“I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.”