Top 83 Committing Suicide Quotes
#1. You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
Antonio Porchia
#2. Ten years was not enough. Stone should
not crumble after just a decade of neglect. The filth should not have piled up so quickly - not with so few inhabitants, most of whom were incapacitated. It was as if Elantris were intent on dying, a city committing suicide.
Brandon Sanderson
#3. Committing suicide just seemed to be another aggressive plan to fix her life.
Chuck Palahniuk
#4. The prisoner of Auschwitz, in the first phase of shock, did not fear death. Even the gas chambers lost their horrors for him after the first few days - after all, they spared him the act of committing suicide.
Viktor E. Frankl
#5. Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.
Jaron Lanier
#6. Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.
Sylvia Plath
#7. Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate.
Vincent Nichols
#8. Today, take a pledge to love yourself. Do not cut, drown, get caught in the fire, or hang yourself. Reasons behind committing suicide can be cured!
Nikita Dudani
#9. The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip.
Jack Goldstein
#10. The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad ... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#11. I am committing suicide by cigarette, I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn't. I thought it was hideous that I should scorn life that much, sucking away on cancer sticks. My brand is Pall Mall. The authentic suicides ask for Pall Malls. The dilettantes ask for Pell Mells.
Kurt Vonnegut
#12. For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.
Karen Blixen
#13. Prosperity without God is like committing suicide.
Sunday Adelaja
#14. It's like im committing suicide and its not the first time.. Do you know what is more devastating?
"No," he said.
"The fact that both times it was my loved ones who convicted such a death for me
Parinoush Saniee
#15. If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.
Jim Butcher
#16. Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Woodrow Wilson
#17. Michael: "Thing is, I'd like to go out with you. What are you doing on Saturday?"
Siobhan: "Committing suicide."
Michael: "Alright then, what are you doing on Friday?"
(from Stormling, 2014)
John Hennessy
#18. The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.
Andrea Dworkin
#19. America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.
Bertrand Russell
#20. By committing suicide, Al had taken away the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.
Stephen King
#21. What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide
Bill Vaughan
#22. I'm convinced Mr. Reagan would never be elected- I don't think his views are held by a majority of the American people ... it's the Republican party that's going to be committing suicide by nominating candidates of that genre.
John Anderson
#23. The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.
Jennifer Stone
#24. If the price you have to pay for a sin is so high that you end up wanting to kill yourself and committing suicide is an even worse sin, then Someone's done his sums wrong. Someone's overcharging.
Nick Hornby
#25. Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
Otto Von Bismarck
#26. When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem,
Johnny Isakson
#27. I always believe when your political opponents are committing suicide, there's no reason to murder them.
John Boehner
#28. Two armies at death-grips - that is one great army committing suicide.
Henri Barbusse
#29. Help Kids Not Feel Alone And Stop Kids From Committing Suicide
Kid Cudi
#30. What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.
J.D. Salinger
#31. Every time you do something crazy, I can feel my little hairs committing suicide by jumping right out of my head and plunging all the way to my shoulders. If you listen carefully, you can sometimes hear them screaming all the way down.
Nicholas Sparks
#32. I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
Albert Camus
#33. In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
Roberto Bolano
#34. Plant life is like the canary in the cage. When it starts to die off, we know we have problems. To ignore plant die off would be like the human race committing suicide. Human extinction would surely follow.
Steven Magee
#35. I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
Victoria Chang
#37. I hate forcing myself to go to bed to avoid committing suicide.
Phil Volatile
#38. It involved giving up what I thought was bringing me comfort, only to clearly see they were leading to a sure and certain early death. I was committing suicide slowly, sweet morsel by sweet morsel (p. 219).
Teresa Shields Parker
#40. My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#41. Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.
Chuck Palahniuk
#42. Revenge is a frequent motive in suicides, you know. They feel it is someone's fault their lives have been unsuccessful, and they want to inflict this guilt on others by committing suicide.
Jo Nesbo
#43. You seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties."
"Yeah. Like I've always wanted to destroy the Nine Worlds while committing suicide."
"Well, there's no need to be rude," protested Sif.
Joanne Harris
#44. His date kept saying to him, "How horrible ... Don't, darling. Please, don't. Not here." Imagine giving somebody a feel and telling them about a guy committing suicide at the same time! They killed me.
J.D. Salinger
#45. Moments is about a girl dying and her boyfriend committing suicide because he can't live without her
Ed Sheeran
#46. From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.
Stanley Hauerwas
#47. Some of us have spent our whole lives committing suicide. And some of us survived.
Anneli Rufus
#48. Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#49. A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.
Ayn Rand
#50. We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.
George Weinberg
#52. Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.
Kurt Vonnegut
#53. I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide. One
Tom Spanbauer
#54. Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.
Woodrow Wilson
#55. The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
Ernest Hemingway,
#56. Our species is committing suicide- that is a choice -and in the process, we are causing others pain.
Terry Tempest Williams
#57. I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings on her and calculated they weren't built to handle something like this on the ward, and just burned out, like machines committing suicide.
Ken Kesey
#58. A detective who uses his deductive powers to corner a suspect and then does nothing to stop them from committing suicide is no better than a murderer himself. - Kudo Shinichi
Gosho Aoyama
#59. If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'
Pope Francis
#61. Leigh [ Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.
Boy George
#62. A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
Oscar Wilde
#63. Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.
Richard Paul Evans
#64. You know when I really realized like 'wow' what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide.
Charles King
#65. When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.
Ricky Martin
#66. A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow beyond that small score of years in which her body can fill its biological function, is committing a kind of suicide.
Betty Friedan
#67. Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting the French Revolution. Stepping up to the guillotine herself, she ordered the executioner to behead her, thereby committing assisted suicide.
Yasutaka Tsutsui
#68. How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one hand, if his belief is false it is like committing intellectual suicide, and, on the other hand, if his belief is true it is an act of intellectual insanity.
Kedar Joshi
#69. A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.
Haim Harari
#70. The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don't know what these guys think they're doing, but it looks like they're committing political suicide.
Charlie Cook
#71. When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.
Les Brown
#72. I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.
Sonny Rollins
#73. What's going on? Not much. My mother's falling to pieces, my sister is a selfish bitch and my father's committing slow suicide for sake of his kingdom. That's all.
Karen Miller
#74. You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.
Ellen Willis
#75. Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
Karl A. Menninger
#76. Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It is less wrong that you should see me than that you should be committing this long suicide.
George Eliot
#77. I think one of the problems in this country is that too many people are screwing things up, committing crimes and then getting on with their lives. What is really needed for public officials who shame themselves is ritual suicide.
George Carlin
#78. The free-lovers say: "Let us have the splendour of offering ourselves without the peril of committing ourselves; let us see whether one cannot commit suicide an unlimited number of times." Emphatically it will not work.
Dale Ahlquist
#79. A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.
Kid Rock
#80. Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#81. There is evidence for the deity of Jesus
good, strong,
historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest
person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.
John R.W. Stott
#82. Changing yourself into who you think someone else wants is hurting yourself. It's a rejection of who you are, and that's toxic. You're committing emotional suicide." I
Jennifer Coburn
#83. Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide are as rare as carefully planned acts of homicide.
Erwin Stengel
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