Quotes About Suicide Attempts

#1. Most teenage suicide attempts are cries for help; the teens survive, succeeding in bringing them the wanted attention. Mine was not a cry for help. I wanted to end my life and my misery.

Sharon E. Rainey

#2. I'll tell you what: How about no more suicide attempts; no more walking off with strangers; no more trying to fight vampires with silly, human weapons--silver bullets only work on werewolves, Jocelyn--and no more holding Nachari's hand. And we'll be just fine.

Tessa Dawn

#3. They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#4. Uniquely, people who made suicide attempts were found to be especially prone to so-called "fortune telling," through which they predict and firmly believe that bad things will happen in the future.

Anonymous

#5. My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

Lorna Luft

#6. I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.

Andrew Solomon

#7. Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

William S. Burroughs

#8. People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as physical food for our body.

L. Lionel Kendrick

#9. I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet.

Alley Mills

#10. The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.

Will Rogers

#11. When a person expends the least possible amount of energy on a certain act, that is grace.

Anton Chekhov

#12. If you want to commit suicide why tell anyone? They'd ruin everything.

Brian Spellman

#13. They're simply seeking an interlude from emotional pain and searing mental agony, a sleep from which they'll awaken to discover they're the person they always wanted to be.

Gillibran Brown

#14. We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.

Stephen L. Carter

#15. Lots of people go back to other hospitals but not to Bloomingdale. It cured me. It made me feel if I was ever to commit suicide again, it had to be done. No more attempts. No more games.

Jean Stein

#16. I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

Stephen Hawking

#17. To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

John Fowles