Top 100 Quotes About Suicide
#1. I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start ...
Steven Wright
#2. In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
Roberto Bolano
#3. Melancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;
Emile Durkheim
#4. David Goodis didn't write novels, he wrote suicide notes.
Ed Gorman
#6. So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#7. Suicide is like the ejector button in the cockpit of an F-15. If life goes into a permanent tail spin, it's nice to know the option is there.
Dov Davidoff
#8. If you attack the Clintons publicly, make sure all your friends know that you are not planning suicide, that you're not careless when you drive a car.
Ann Coulter
#9. The mind, when it reaches its limits, must make a judgment and choose its conclusions. This is where suicide and the reply stand.
Albert Camus
#10. you look you see only bitterness or despair. If all of these conditions and situations apply to you, I recommend a refreshing suicide attempt.
Jeff VanderMeer
#11. John Walker, while he was in Afghanistan, told people his goal was to have four wives ... Do we need any further proof that this guy is out of his mind? Four wives? That's how al Qaeda gets you to become a suicide bomber.
David Letterman
#12. I have journeyed back in thought
with thought hopelessly tapering off as I went
to remote regions where I groped for some secret outlet only to discover that the prison of time is spherical and without exits. Short of suicide I have tried everything.
Vladimir Nabokov
#13. The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion.
Robert Pape
#14. Rorschach did not seek death; he didn't commit suicide by Manhattan. But he understood what the others did not. "It is better to sacrifice life than to forfeit morality. It is not necessary to live, but it is necessary that, so long as we live, we do so honourably."18
William Irwin
#15. Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core.
Marsha M. Linehan
#16. Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain.
David L. Conroy
#17. We were beginning to understand why, in pre-anaesthetic days, the Bible had stipulated that suicide was a sin. Anything other than the prospect of eternal damnation, and the human race would probably have done away with itself at the first sign of the dentist.
Kate Griffin
#18. Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.
Huey Newton
#19. I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.
Art Buchwald
#20. The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
Norman Mailer
#21. It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists. You don't want to inadvertently end up doing someone's bidding.
Darryl Pinckney
#22. We live through the belief of children ... Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.
Bill Willingham
#24. To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.
Hippolyte Taine
#25. The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
Salman Rushdie
#26. Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has got so expensive. Drugs are too chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time.
P. J. O'Rourke
#27. Suicide seemed to me the greatest kind of freedom, a release from everything, from a life that had been ruined a long time ago.
Natascha Kampusch
#28. The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.
Charles Caleb Colton
#29. Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
Woody Allen
#30. The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
William Ralph Inge
#31. On the shelves of her uncle's shop a jar contains the powdered skull of a suicide, a well-known cure for the falling sickness.
Karen Maitland
#32. Among pernicious myths is the one where people always get very upbeat and generous and other-directed right before they eliminate their own map for keeps. The truth is that the hours before a suicide are usually an interval of enormous conceit and self-involvement.
David Foster Wallace
#33. Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.
Anne Sexton
#34. A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.
Ayn Rand
#35. The subject of this essay is precisely this relationship between the absurd and suicide, the exact degree to which suicide is a solution to the absurd.
Albert Camus
#36. Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life ...
Lucy Freeman
#37. I've always though of writing as the opposite of suicide," she said. "That writing was about immortality. Defeating death, or at least forestalling it."
"Like Scheherazade?"
"Yes," she said. "Spinning tales to forestall her execution ...
Ruth Ozeki
#38. No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
Eric Sevareid
#39. I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide.
H.G.Wells
#40. For if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#41. 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
#42. Whether they soothe or snarl, cringe or strut, suicide notes do not seek to entertain. I
Martin Amis
#43. She was what we used to call a suicide blonde
dyed by her own hand.
Saul Bellow
#44. The man billed as Prospero the Enchanter receives a fair amount of correspondence via the theater office, but this is the first envelope addressed to him that contains a suicide note, and it is also the first to arrive carefully pinned to the coat of a five-year-old girl.
Erin Morgenstern
#45. Sartre went so far as to say that the only question he could not answer was why he did not commit suicide.
Ravi Zacharias
#46. I asked him at the clambake in 2001, at the writers' retreat Xanadu, what he'd done during the war, which he called 'civilization's second unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide,
Kurt Vonnegut
#47. I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide - plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#49. Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries.
Santosh Kalwar
#50. The Friendship is a suicide, the question is "Are you ready to suicide?".
Deyth Banger
#51. They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)
Vachel Lindsay
#52. I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.
Henry David Thoreau
#53. When I said I absolve you, that wasn't meant as a suicide suggestion. For the moment, we're still bonded."
"Only partially."
"Great, then I can partially kick your ass.
Cecily White
#54. Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.
F. Sionil Jose
#55. Martyrdom operations - suicide bombings - should be exported outside Palestine. I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don't be shy about it.
Hassan Nasrallah
#56. Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.
Ezekiel Emanuel
#57. I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
Adam Ant
#58. I've had to experience despair, I've had to sink down to the most foolish one of all thoughts, to the thought of suicide, in order to be able to experience divine grace, to hear Om again,
Hermann Hesse
#59. The way I was boozing was a kind of suicide. It was only gonna be a matter of time.
Ozzy Osbourne
#60. 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
#61. The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.
George Carlin
#62. A martyr is a man who cares so much for something outside him, that he forgets his own personal life. A suicide is a man who cares so little for anything outside him, that he wants to see the last of everything. One wants something to begin: the other wants everything to end.
G.K. Chesterton
#63. 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
#64. The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.
Paul Watzlawick
#65. What else is wrong with 'suicide' bombing? Legally, less than what one might believe. While it may or may not be good strategy, it appears to be permissable under international law.
Enver Masud
#66. Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Karl A. Menninger
#67. No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.
H.L. Mencken
#68. Twitter could not be described as it was: a mechanism by which teenagers tormented each other into suicide while obsessing about ephemeral celebrities and on which Adeline argued about whether or not she hated the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory of 1911.
Jarett Kobek
#69. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
G.K. Chesterton
#70. I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
Albert Camus
#71. Eat my food or die."
"If I eat your food I WILL die." He belches before reaching in the fridge for a soda. "Yeah, whatever. Gimme something to commit a slow suicide with.
Addison Moore
#72. Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.
Richard Brautigan
#73. Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note.
'Sorry,' said the note.
'Just not big enough.
John Irving
#74. Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.
Peter D. Kramer
#75. I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.
Hermann Hesse
#76. Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Gary Bauer
#77. Roses are like kamikaze love pilots.
Roses are like suicide love bombers.
Olivia Sudjic
#78. In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
Gary Cherone
#79. If you're looking for the suspect in a suicide bombing, here's a clue: Look for the dead guy.
Norm MacDonald
#80. There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?
Auberon Waugh
#81. Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide', and he told me from now I have to pay in advance.
Rodney Dangerfield
#82. Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.
Chuck Palahniuk
#83. So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.
Tupac Shakur
#84. When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon.
Henry Miller
#85. I know people think suicide is selfish, and maybe sometimes it really is. But what happened to Kai was beyond what anyone should have to cope with. I didn't blame him, not really. It just broke my heart that I wasn't enough to keep him here.
Cat Clarke
#86. Two armies at death-grips - that is one great army committing suicide.
Henri Barbusse
#88. How about suicide rate. And what a shame to lose them after they've made it back. We keep them alive, but we don't teach them how to live.
Mary Roach
#89. Life is a suicide course, Miro. Check it out- basic philosophy course. You spend your life running out of fuel and when you're finally out, you croak.
Orson Scott Card
#90. It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#91. Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.
Vic Fuentes
#92. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
#94. I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide.
Jerry Seinfeld
#95. The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#96. All superheroes had pretty much the same problem. Batman was flash and sexy compared to Bruce Wayne and even Robin was a lot cooler than Dick Grayson. As for Superman, well. It was a fucking miracle that Clark Kent had never committed suicide.
Will Christopher Baer
#97. If I'm gonna commit suicide, I'll go out eatin' pussy to death.
Dave Mustaine
#98. Help Kids Not Feel Alone And Stop Kids From Committing Suicide
Kid Cudi
#99. Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.
S.A. Tawks
#100. On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide - it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese - the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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