Top 100 Quotes About Suicide
#1. I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me.
Walter Mosley
#2. 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
#3. Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#4. I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
Victoria Chang
#5. We're saying the story doesn't end here, that the air in your lungs is there for a reason.
Jamie Tworkowski
#6. You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.
Dee Remy
#7. As he thought about his life, he felt both tears and mockery welling up inside him. All that lay before him was madness or suicide. He walked down the darkening street alone, determined now to wait for the destiny that would come to annihilate him.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#9. I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.
Annie E. Clark
#10. Why don't you pass the gun around and give everyone a shot.
Alice Cooper
#11. I argue that in a world where people must support their opinions with evidence and reason rather than faith, we would experience less conflict over issues like assisted suicide, gay rights, birth control, and sexual morality.
Jerry A. Coyne
#12. Hitler gave us orders - and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share.
Wilhelm Keitel
#13. It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Clare Boothe Luce
#14. Doesn't suicide seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?
Richard Eberhart
#15. He committed suicide in 1794 because the Revolutionary authorities had made it clear that they planned to reward his irreverent wit with a visit to the guillotine.
Clive James
#16. Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?
David Bowie
#17. So easy to go sailing off this road. A wonder more folks didn't. All that space, waiting.
S.M. Hulse
#18. I often think of death.
True.
Suicide is a reasonable option.
True.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I leave it blank.
James Frey
#19. You are afraid of hell. But that's all religion is, really. Fear of a place we'd rather not be, and where there's no such a thing as suicide to steal us away.
Patrick DeWitt
#20. The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting that there is much more beneath this little book. (page iii)
Michael Ben Zehabe
#21. Audie was the cleverest man Moss had ever met. He was Yoda. He was Gandalf. He was Morpheus. Now he'd become a walking suicide note.
Michael Robotham
#23. Like every other mortal who has ever been touched by suicide, I had the fallacious belief that I could have done something to stop it.
Patricia Cornwell
#24. In the wasteland of metro Boston, at thirteen, fourteen, his big dream had been of a gun to his own head, putting him out of his misery - a misery that by sophomore year of college was indistinguishable from everybody else's.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#25. I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.
H.G.Wells
#26. ...A mule kicked him in the head." She paused, and then said, "I always wondered if he provoked it. Deliberately."
Radzin snorted. "Suicide by mule?"
"Everyone knew that animal had a temper."
"There would be a dozen better ways to do it.
Helene Wecker
#27. As affluence and urbanization rise in a society, rates of depression and suicide tend to go up rather than down.
Sebastian Junger
#28. It is always a foolish thing to contemplate suicide; for no matter how dark the future may appear today, tomorrow may hold for us that which will alter our whole life in an instant, revealing to us nothing but sunshine and happiness. So, for my part, I shall always wait for tomorrow.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#29. Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?
Jeff Lindsay
#30. Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.
Charles Caleb Colton
#31. And finally, count your blessings. You got through college. You didn't commit suicide, O.D., or have a nervous breakdown, and let's remember the ones who did. It's time to get busy. It's your turn to cause trouble.
John Waters
#32. Many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.
Clifford Whittingham Beers
#33. I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows.
Jeanette Winterson
#34. The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.
Chuck Palahniuk
#35. The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.
William Styron
#36. You of all people would know people who commit suicide... can't go to the paradise of the stars. Even if you did commit a horrible crime... you have to live! You can't just give up and die! You have to live and atone for your wrongs!
Noriko Ogiwara
#37. I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's beter to burn out than to fade away.
Kurt Cobain
#38. One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.
Lewis Mumford
#39. The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We've now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what's gone wrong.
Nigel Farage
#41. The central argument of this book is that there is a solid moral and practical basis for the laws against assisted suicide that now exist in the United States and elsewhere. Furthermore,
Arthur J. Dyck
#42. This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.
Johnny Rich
#43. On my way out I didn't look at the dark guy, the suicide bomber, again. I think I didn't look at him because I didn't believe he was a terrorist, but maybe I didn't look at him because I didn't want to embarrass him.
Assaf Gavron
#44. I wonder if anybody ever decided to commit suicide, then thought; but first I'm going to stop by that taco place I like so much.
Dov Davidoff
#45. It is the ultimate metafictional act, not homicide but suicide. (Wallace would say that one of the problems of metafiction is that there is no difference.)
D.T. Max
#46. During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#47. If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I'm not suicidal. And I'm a pretty good driver.
Glenn Beck
#48. Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that's to be died.
Stevie Smith
#49. And can a man his own quietus make
with a bare bodkin?
D.H. Lawrence
#50. Alan! How many more times do I have to tell you? We do not say "see you soon" to customers when they leave our shop. We say "goodbye", because they won't be coming back, ever. When will you get that into your thick head?
Jean Teule
#51. When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state.
David Foster Wallace
#52. Having difficult times and grief and brokenness, does not mean that life is over. These are just bumps in the road, obstacles to be overcome and made stepping stones into a long successful life.
Teresa St. Frances
#53. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life. Oxford:
Gary L. Wenk
#54. Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying power, and Palestinians consider them targets for suicide bombers as well as other means.
Mohamed Elmasry
#55. 6th grade. My dog, Katie, is hit by a car and killed. A mean girl during recess says it committed suicide because it didn't love me. I cry and swear revenge on mankind.
Eugene Mirman
#56. My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
Camille Paglia
#57. I don't have to kill myself, living my life is just the same.
Aaron Scheerer
#58. The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#59. Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.
James Joyce
#61. I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#62. I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold.
Clifton B. Cates
#63. These thoughts only scare me because I'm not afraid of them. I don't want to die. I don't want to kill myself. But I'm not afraid of it.
Josh Nealis
#64. The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.
Truman Capote
#65. It is only in pain that a woman is capable of rising above mediocrity. Her resistance to pain is infinite; one can use and abuse it without any fear that she will die, as long as some childish physical cowardice or some religious hope keeps her from the suicide that offers her a way out.
Colette
#66. No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun - for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax - This won't hurt
Hunter S. Thompson
#67. suicide is committed by some one brave. A coward do not even dare to think about it and hide himself behind the wall of what we know as life.
Aimi
#68. On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.
ASAP Rocky
#69. Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU. [Suicide note. ]
Kurt Cobain
#70. Death is easy. To live is the most painful thing I could imagine and I'm weak and no longer willing to fight.
Hannah Wright
#71. Murder could be a psychological alternative to suicide.
Dorothy Simpson
#72. Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.
Thomas Sowell
#73. I stood in my own field, wanting obligations to fall from me. This is one way of contemplating suicide, yet it's the exact opposite: what I wanted was to be alive, to escape all the damage, to shed it like snakeskin, to emerge pure and naked and laughing.
Jardine Libaire
#74. It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.'
'Why not?'
'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.
George Orwell
#75. He is always on the brink of suicide ... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives.
Umberto Eco
#76. What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.
Justin Cronin
#77. I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#78. If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.
Katherine Anne Porter
#79. A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.
Brian Crozier
#80. We have yet to establish a permanent Mars colony for this reason: Trying to colonize Mars with humans is a known suicide mission that no one is talking about.
Steven Magee
#81. No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#82. Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.
David Kyuman Kim
#83. The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.
John Podhoretz
#84. American corporate capitalism is a murder-suicide mission.
Bryant McGill
#85. I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.
Antonin Artaud
#86. They suffered with his death and she - she suffered with their reaction to it.
Haidji
#87. We do not want to comprehend that people may and do die of emotional pain, or to recognize the terror in ourselves when we cannot seem to help someone in despair
when our words are empty.
Jill Bialosky
#88. Cult Mother- Now what does your spirit animal say to you?
Thugs- Uhm...Uh...
-King Shark smashes through the roof-
King Shark- Hi. My name is Trixie. I like to party.
Adam Glass
#89. If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?
Steven Wright
#91. Bridget who is crazy said that sometimes she thought about suicide when commercials come on during TV. She was sincere and this puzzled the guidance counselors.
Stephen Chbosky
#92. Three: You don't know what it's like
Seven: To do a cartwheel followed by a somersault followed by wishing so hard you could fold your hands into a pistol and no longer exist.
Various
#93. When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.
Jay Asher
#94. Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice - made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.
George W. Bush
#95. He lived like a devil and died like a saint
Haidji
#96. Her experience told her that suicide wasn't a thunderous, unimaginable roar. It was a seductive whisper that stole the people you loved.
Wendy Roberts
#97. I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.
Ken Livingstone
#98. He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.
Daniel Defoe
#99. Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.
Susan Estrich
#100. That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.
R. K. Milholland
