Al Alvarez Quotes

Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations...

Suicide may be a declaration of bankruptcy which passes judgement on a life as one long history of f...

When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.

No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.

The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enor...

From that altitude, the world looked calm and vivid and possible. But by the time we landed at Prest...

For the artist himself art is not necessarily therapeutic; he is not automatically relieved of his f...

Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box an...

[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following h...