Quotes by : Al Álvarez

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 failures.....

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