"I would not be a party to that last and meanest unkindness, treachery to a would-be suicide. My sympathies have been with the...
"I would not be a party to that last and meanest unkindness, treachery to a would-be suicide. My sympathies have been with the suicides for many, many years. I am always glad when the suicide succeeds in his undertaking. I always feel a genuine pain in my heart, a genuine grief, a genuine pity, when some scoundrel stays the suicide's hand and compels him to continue his life." Autobiography 1906. "But we are all insane, anyway...The suicides seem to be the only sane people." Notebook 1897-1900
[2/2] “Suicide is the only sane thing the young or old ever do in this life.” -“Unfortunately none of us can see far ahead; prophecy is not for us. Hence the paucity of suicides.” In compilation book “Which was the Dream” – “Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.” Notebook 1897.1 “If I do not get out of debt in three months – pistols or poison for one- exit me” 1865 at 29 in nevada, no money lots of debt
