Edwin S. Shneidman > Quotes

“There are many pointless deaths, but there can never be a needless suicide.”
― Edwin S. Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior

“There’s no spirit or soul. I will be dead. Get that through your thick head. I’ll be dead. And I live, in quotation marks, in my children, in my DNA, in my books, in my reputation. It’s as simple as that.”
― Edwin Shneidman

“Each suicidal drama occurs in the mind of a unique individual.”
― Edwin S. Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache: A Clinical Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior

“Each day contains the threat of failure and assaults by others, but it is the threat of self-destruction that we are most afraid to touch, except in our secret moments or the hidden recesses of our minds.”
― Edwin Shneidman

“I’m alert, but I just feel like shit.”
― Edwin S. Shneidman, Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind

“Vomited. Damn it. I just threw up a shitload of lithium. There were”
― Edwin S. Shneidman, Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind

“It’s over. Finally over. I will do it now.”
― Edwin S. Shneidman, Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind

“I hope I have taken enough to finish this.”
― Edwin S. Shneidman, Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind

“I would like to address every person I know individually, but as a person who doesn’t care about anything, I guess it’s difficult to care enough to spend the time to do that.”
― Edwin S. Shneidman, Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind

“Leave my body alone.”
― Edwin S. Shneidman, Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind

“At times I was a faculty psychiatrist asked to treat troubled medical students. I found that treating a suicidal medical student who carried the hopes and aspirations of family and school was stressful.”
― Edwin S. Shneidman, Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind

“I found few people who either occasionally gave me some joy,”
― Edwin S. Shneidman, Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind