6 Quotes by Edwin S. Shneidman

Each suicidal drama occurs in the mind of a unique individual.

Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.

Death – some form of termination – is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have...

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.

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.