Kevin

“Beliefs about suicide varied considerably in ancient Greece. The Stoics and Epicureans believed strongly in the individual’s right to choose the means and time of his death. Others were less accepting of the idea. In Thebes and Athens, suicide was not against the law, but those who killed themselves were denied funeral rites and the hand that had been used for the act was severed from the arm. Aristotle regarded suicide as an act of cowardice, as well as an act against the state; so, too, did Pythagoras.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“Because the privacy of my nightmare had been of my own designing, no one close to me had any real idea of the psychological company I had been keeping.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“The resolve rising in her soul to die with me drew me I cannot tell you how powerfully, irresistibly to her bosom. Do you remember that I often asked you would you die with me? — But you always said no — A whirlpool of never before experienced happiness has seized hold of me and I cannot deny that her grave is dearer to me than the beds of all the empresses in the world. — Oh, my dear friend, may God soon call you to that better world where we shall all with the love of the angels embrace one another again.
— Adieu.”
― Heinrich von Kleist, Kleist: Selected Writings

“They tried to get me—I got them first!”
― Vachel Lindsay