Suicide Quotes by Ana Castillo, Rachel Cohn, Thomas Huxley, William Shakespeare, Bill Skarsgard, Pliny the Elder and many others.
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
What’s better, I wonder – to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?
The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of “Spiritualism” is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a “medium” hired at a guinea a sГ©ance.
It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.
I’m always looking for something that’s real and that’s got meat on it. I think it’s artistic suicide if you’re too vain, or if you’re afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.
I love everything about what we [Suicide Silence] do, and our life style. It’s an insane way to live when you spend most of your time inside a plane, tour bus, or in a back stage. All over this massive place we call earth.
For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society’s method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It’s like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
Sons of suicides seldom do well.
We’ve got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can’t continue like that.
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don’t know a single person who doesn’t know at least two of these victims personally.
The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.
Moments is about a girl dying and her boyfriend committing suicide because he can’t live without her
We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
“Failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.
Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?” “Which part” asked Maggie. “The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening?
It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.
The problem with suicide is that it seems so flamboyant. It’s camp. You have to be a bit of a drama queen to ever seriously consider it.
You know when you hear the 22 suicides a day it’s a big part of your question. But when you hear the 22 suicides a day that should never be.
It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, … what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I’m afraid I’ll stutter.
Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Political courage is not political suicide.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
The celebrity world can be so ugly. Everyone seems to have slept with everyone else and it’s some sort of strange weird cycle. I don’t want to get into that.
The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place
I may not be in control of anything else, but I am in control of my body.
The Labour Party’s election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.
God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain … I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good.
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.
I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
I feel certain that I’m going mad again, I feel we can’t go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices
No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer’s evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.
Fine. Let’s begin with something even you can’t screw up.” – Death “Way to build up my crappy confidence there. You should volunteer for the suicide hotline.” – Nick “What makes you think I don’t?” – Death
But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.
American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education.
I’m not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don’t know how he can survive. I don’t know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I’d love to be there to help Greg.
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.
‘Birdman’ is basically ‘All About Eve’ – the 1950 comedy about rehearsal rivalries in a Broadway show, and another Best Picture laureate – reimagined as a Batman suicide mission. The movie couldn’t be actor-ier.
Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one’s own hand.
It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide Day.
To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby’s before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]
If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think ‘How lucky are the dead.
For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality – the changing of the seasons – thats what I deeply loved.
Life’s been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.
A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 – and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It’s easy that way, but it’s a sort of suicide, too.
More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.
Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap. We got to get out while we’re young.
I suspect the fault…is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide.
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
Keep Looking Up was my life’s admonition, I can do little else in my present position.
Life is like a movie, if you’ve sat through more than half of it and it’s sucked every second so far, it probably isn’t going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.
I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.
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.
I really think suicide has a branding problem because it has a tagline. It has a catch phrase, and I bet a lot of us know it. It sucks. It’s really condescending. I bet we’ve heard it. Suicide – the coward’s way out.
But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn’t dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I’d managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than I’d been in years.
Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don’t know the vanity and the nothingness of writing. I think it is very usual and natural for a writer to commit suicide, because in order to keep on writing he must be a very strong person.
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.
Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
I don’t think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays when there’s a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you’re always making a choice.
The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.
How many of those dead animals you see on the highway are suicides?
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter.
Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. ‘Sorry,’ said the note. ‘Just not big enough.
If I hadn’t been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged — where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.
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.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.
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.
I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad but that I couldn’t commit suicide and then try MIT afterwards. The two operations, suicide and going to MIT, don’t commute.
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn’t been.
I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people’s way of committing suicide.
There is no country on earth that can touch us in charitable efforts, in disaster relief efforts, in doing everything to help. We do not live under a suicide pact in the name of compassion, because you see what’s incorporated in all this is that we’re guilty of something. And we’re not. We lead the world in goodness.
The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.
The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.
There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.
Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)
A man with an excruciatingly painful condition wrote me and told me that his doctor said that the only cure for what he has is death, and he might want to consider suicide. What do you say to him? I doubt the, “Hey let’s go get some coffee and talk” thing is going to be at all helpful.
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn’t had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
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?
Resignation is a daily suicide.
These Jews who run things, who are producing this mental illness ВВteenage suicide…all these Jewish sicknesses…that’s nothing new. The Talmud’s full of things like sex with boys and girls.
We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.
Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.
Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn’t sophistication. It’s suicide.
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
You can’t enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.
Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don’t know how people who engage in that don’t commit suicide.
Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, ‘Hey, there’s this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.’ And they would be like, ‘Please don’t ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.’
A lot of people told me that I’m committing musical suicide with my sound.
He that cuts off twenty years of life
Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
There is a massive problem with veteran suicides.
But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.
I inherited depression from my mother’s side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.
In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide.
As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling.
Any professional league that goes on strike right now – that’s just suicide.
suicide is the ultimate ‘one-up,’ as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.
Suicide is not a remedy
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn’t live for very long without a heart.
If life’s a joke, then suicide’s a bad punch line.
The majority of the things that I do, I’m actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out any fears that you have.
Jon Davis was a fan and came out on stage with us somewhere in the Midwest and came out in a Suicide Silence shirt and a kilt and did his thing.
I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.
That’s the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don’t think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It’s an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It’s this thing that’s looming, and you can control it.
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.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Suicides aren’t heroic in my opinion. And I don’t think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.
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.
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it–that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.” -Mrs. Karafilis
I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
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.
We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.
I guess I’m a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
I don’t want to be a professional cripple. And I don’t see the suicide stuff as tragic.
I have a suicide impulse.
But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.
Donald Trump doesn’t believe that the Constitution is a suicide pact.
Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o’er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.
Goodbye, everybody! (Suicide note)
In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor.
My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained in a behaviorist approach to psychology which – whatever its limitations – at least taught me to see human behavior in its social context).
The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.
I always believe when your political opponents are committing suicide, there’s no reason to murder them.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.
Far from definitively resolving the assisted suicide issue, the court’s decisions seem to assure that the debate over assisted suicide and euthanasia is not yet over – and may have only begun.
Lemmings with suicide vests. It’s kind of an insult to lemmings to call them lemmings, so they’d have to be more than just a lemming, because jumping to your death is not enough.
I will rather kill myself than commit suicide.
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.
One more drink and you’re dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.
Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’
Cigarettes don’t kill people – cancer kills people.
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.
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.
The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers in preventing suicide. It’s a very good thing to decrease suicide but we should care at least a little if I’m not killing myself because I feel better or if I just can’t remember where I put the damn gun.
What do you do when you don’t know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.
She’s the princess. She commanded and I obeyed!”-Loki “You don’t obey a suicide mission!”-Finn
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.
If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total
depression.
depression.
When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred… I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.
I was really struck by all these people who had committed suicide. There are videos of all of them talking about why they’re so happy to shed their human existence and exit their “vehicles” and I thought, “Why is that?”
The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue.
Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.
The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad… Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes.
In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness…. The expanses are so great that the little man hasn’t the resources to orient himself…. This is what I think about Russian suicides.
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.
The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.
Suicide isn’t cowardly. I’ll tell you what’s cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.
The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist.
People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it’s really just the opposite
People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it’s really just the opposite.
But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.
We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.
If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.
When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the ’50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character’s committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or ‘turning’ heterosexual.
In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: ‘If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die’.
The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide.
What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith – encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.
Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
It’s impossible for me to hear the words quadruple murder suicide without thinking of my grandparents.
You can get through it and you can land on your feet triumphantly and strong.
By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!
Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn’t have television? Do you know how much happiness I’ve brought to people who couldn’t get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
One of my favorite movies of all time is ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’, which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it’s about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.
Kids grow up awfully fast these days,”she said. “You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.
We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.
Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.
The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.
Now that you are dead, you are splendid. Photographs of people who have just died are worth twenty percent more, and for suicides there is an additional five percent. Now that you are dead you are much in demand.
When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I’d become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.
Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, ‘suicide counseling.’
Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.
There had been a number of failures but we weren’t going out to ride a failure. And we felt they’d corrected all the difficulties with the boosters before that time and the launch problems. And so we had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren’t off on some suicide effort, certainly.
What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.
There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as ‘successful’ and ‘unsuccessful’ to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who ‘fail’ at killing themselves not only are weak, but incompetent, incapable even of getting their dying quite right.
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.
The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.
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
I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.
When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem.
Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.
We were at another funeral party. I wasn’t sure who had died this time, but it was a suicide, and upsetting because it was completely out of season. No on killed themselves in summertime. It was rude.
A lot of my close friends have committed suicide or died of heroin overdoses.
Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it’s not nothing, it’s something. But it’s not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and inaccessible.
He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.
People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It’s just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That’s why we’re in this business, because of our need to communicate.
No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It’s like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.
The last thing we’ll hear is some scientist saying ‘It works!’
And the more pity that great folk should have count’nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.
There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.
Guns aren’t lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.
By four o’clock, I’ve discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.
59% of all suicides are actually botched murder-suicides performed by dyslexics.
Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don’t believe it’s a sin or a crime it’s your right if you do. Though it doesn’t get you anywhere.
You can’t really control what people think. You can’t really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have.
I don’t so much mind that newspapers are dying – it’s watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.
I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.
Why would I strike America and invite a retaliatory counterstrike that would put an end to my regime? Keep in mind, the whole point of this – my entire strategy, all our efforts and the hardships we have borne – is to ensure that my regime and I survive. Why would I risk that? I believe in assassination, not suicide.
Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it’s God’s way of calling certain folks home early. It’s much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.
I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other groups are more interested in symbolic terrorism, like what they did to the World Trade Center – suicide bombers or something that really has an effect and is meaningful to people.
Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a cover for desperation and nihilism, but not for religion.
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.
Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.
Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it’s the ultimate hissy fit.
Our illness is often our healing.
Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
The owner of Mojo’s was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.
Dead people are all on the same level.
I like to think of murder-suicide as extreme multitasking.
Non-violence … is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?
Even if you’re unhappy, just pretend that you’re happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that, I used to think, ‘I’m being fake,’ but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.
They’ll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today.
Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
I think more awareness is very important so women can learn how to protect themselves. As a fourth-degree black-belt, I learned from a young age that you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself, and that’s something that we should start to implement for a lot of women.
I really don’t understand how parents can talk about gay couples’ PDA as a problem or a transgender teen’s suicide and not the fact that too many of our kids are being murdered in the schools and on the streets.
My husband and I didn’t sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
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.
There aren’t many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory – it’d be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it’s strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places.
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It’s literary suicide.
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don’t want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
The common damn’d shun their society.
History is not a suicide note — it is a record of our survival.
In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.
To kill time is not murder, it’s suicide.
(God) gives the weak a weapon for self-defense that the strong, despite his military and nuclear arsenals, can do nothing against. There are clerics who condemn this and even say that these are suicide operations that are not allowed in Islam.
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.
Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.
A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.
Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.
Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.
The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.
We always knew that we didn’t want to show Alan Turing in the act of suicide – it was our feeling that would tip over into melodrama too quickly and seem over-the-top.
Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.
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.
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.
He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.’ Gothos’ Folly
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
To give up another person’s love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.
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.
Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it’s hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
I just couldn’t go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland’s suicide. I didn’t see how we could make the show light and funny any more.
As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold respect from the faith of Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers
The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.
Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.
I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
We must not pluck death from the Maker’s hand.
I’m not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I’m pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don’t think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.
Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it’s suicide to stay there.
[On suicide:] It’s the only cause of death that can be used as a noun to describe the dead person. If you die of cancer you are not called ‘a cancer.’ If someone else shoots you, you are not referred to as ‘a murder.’ But if you shoot yourself, you are labeled as a suicide. Your death becomes your definition.
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
I just want to be happy. And I find that people that have the least in life are sometimes the happiest. And I don’t have the least in life. I have enough in life. And I won’t sacrifice my health for that.
Happiness is the death of the ego. If you want to remain a separate entity from existence as almost everybody is trying to do, you will be afraid of being blissful, cheerful. You will feel guilty in being blissful. You will feel suicidal because you are committing suicide on the psychological level, on the level of the ego.
We had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren’t off on some suicide effort, certainly [with Friendship 7].
Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.
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.
Books about suicide make lousy gifts.
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.
I’ll never forget my grandmother’s last words. She said ‘What are you doing?’
We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.
It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure.” “Must do it… constantly go to the well… constantly try, try, try. Dare. Dare, Dare. Who dares wins.
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.
I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy.
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.
I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
Suicide is no solution. Keep fighting.
By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
Life’s too short for a funeral.
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
Suicide doesn’t solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.
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.
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
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.
I have a history with domestic violence myself. I have toddlers in my home, and I’m a gun owner. And, as a veteran, I’m a member of a community that has a very high suicide rate. So all of those things have touched my life.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
The nails from a suicide’s coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.
When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act.” And they do calm down.
The soldiers kill suicide bombers. Think about that. When a guys whole thing in life is to kill himself and you get there first… you are halling ass my friends.
When people are like, ‘Life is good,’ I go, ‘No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that’s when you savor, savor, savor.’
A ‘mixed economy’ is a society in the process of committing suicide.
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)
To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.
Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.
When you’re thirty-five, you can’t take as much booze … and I always got a little violent on drink…So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it.
A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.
God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
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.
I understand that the American people has a right and especially the press, which is not very friendly to us, to make all suppositions and ideas about this fact [suicide by Augusto Martinez] – this disgraced fact.
I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up – depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.
Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
He only who gave life has a power over it.
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
i’m back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes ’till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.
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.
The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.
What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I’m gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.
You know the worst: your wills are fickle,
Your values blurred, your hearts impure
And your past life a ruined church–
But let your poison be your cure.
Your values blurred, your hearts impure
And your past life a ruined church–
But let your poison be your cure.
The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.
If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more.
ObamaCare is not a ‘trainwreck,’ it is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate, so we agree under duress to accept big government.
Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.
Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great – all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.
Don’t commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.
By finding the courage to be ourselves, we gain the power to make a difference.
And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.
I would rather be a serf in a poor man’s house and be above ground than reign among the dead.
I’ve played everything but the harp.
But it’s a stigmatized problem, and it’s a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it’s a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.
Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he’ll kill himself with nothing but his waste.
I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No matter how much mutilation or pain. But he looked away, at me. He pulled my face down and pressed my lips against his like he was almost trying to suffocate us both.
The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip.
I don’t get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.
I can’t understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn’t, at least it isn’t any worse.
I guess they call it suicide, but I’m to full to swallow my pride I can’t stand losing you The Police Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering are everywhere.
The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother and brother had not been there I would have made no move to jump.
Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
“State,” I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; “state,” where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; “state,” where they all call their slow suicide-“life.”
You already barely exist. Disappearing entirely won’t be that much of a change.
All failures – neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes – are failures because they are lacking in social interest
she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.
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.
You know who would make an interesting murder-suicide? Madeline Albright and Yanni.
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others.
Maybe if we can find time to hug and cherish our families and the people around us, child suicide or college suicide wouldn’t be rampant.
No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.
Suicide is the #1 killer of a person who is in a boat and happens to be passing under a bridge at the wrong time.
During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.
If a doctor assists you in your suicide, it is called manslaughter, while if a tobacco company does, it is called commerce.
I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And figure out a way to reprogram yourself, to change your primal fear.
I’ve been working for a while with a Scottish suicide prevention charity called The Joshua Nolan Foundation that brings the conversation about mental health into schools and provides free counseling for those who need it.
Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder.
Terror breeds terror. I am completely opposed to both state terror and those who respond in a similar way. There is no justification for any group that associates itself with the Left to kill innocents and encourage suicide bombings.
Football is potential post-career suicide.
Everything…affects everything
The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the logic of the madhouse, a recipe for collective suicide. We dont want a global suicide pact. We want a global survival pact
The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
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.
I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr’s death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr’s death.
I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
I saw Suicide in ’74 and it was pretty horrifying.
Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.
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.
Sun, I come to see you for the last time.
I don’t mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I’m not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.
No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.
I’ll be your crying shoulder, I’ll be love’s suicide, I’ll be better when I’m older, I’ll be the greatest fan of your life.
It wasn’t until ’94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn’t about the money.
There’re people all over the world that have access to Suicide Silence because of the internet and everyone that listens to you has a better chance to paying to see you play.
There’s nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They’re mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
I’d rather die than go to heaven.
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.
I’m a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain’t never been an MC, who ain’t never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that’s MC suicide.
The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.
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.
It’s better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.
There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.
I’m for a stronger death penalty.
Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It’s like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me.
The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
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.
While his history of depression is compatible with suicide… and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide.
I probably could have gone in depth about a lot of things, but then the album would’ve been longer. You can’t have a short album when you’re talking about suicide and cocaine. That’s not going to be a short album.
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
I can’t get my wrists to bleed, just don’t know why suicide appeals to me.
If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.
I’m an old Catholic. I don’t believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.
A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
You can’t kill me, I’ve got a magic… AAAARGH !
We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
If I weren’t a Christian Scientist, and I saw “Trog” advertised on a marquee across the street, I’d think I’d contemplate suicide.
I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart’s on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens.
Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
Why not make an end of it all?… My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings…. What is death?… A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which only death appears as a pinprick of light: in other words, the exact opposite of the normal condition of life.
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.
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality – the changing of the seasons – that’s what I deeply loved.
Suicide is a real threat to health.
When you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, you can be sure you’re dead.
Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?
Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There’s many a better thing to do than die!
I don’t want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.
As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what’s known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!
We have suicide bombers blowing up buses in Israel and very real anti-Semitism on the march in Europe, but the TV networks located the worldwide danger zone for Jews as the space between Mel Gibson’s ears.
It could be my downfall, but I don’t think it is – Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it’s suicide.
If you push through the hard days you can get through anything.
I think my music’s more disturbing than Tupac’s – or at least I thought some of the themes of ‘The Downward Spiral’ were more disturbing on a deeper level – you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else.
People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.
I’ve lost, but I also gained a lot. I’m a creative person, and no one can take that away from me. I’ve been told I committed professional suicide because it was the only escape from the terrible pressures I was facing. What do you think?
Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin’ On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She’s my virgin suicide
Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.
I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I’m standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of that pain.
One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing.
I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.
Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.
Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.
To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.
I don’t believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)
In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So ‘Suicide Squad’ is just like, wow, so damn awesome.
Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man’s destructive tendencies.
Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.
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.
Those struggling with life-threatening thoughts do not feel connected to others. They feel all alone- even alone in the midst of a crowd.
Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by them. So we are told to stop, to shut off lines of inquiry, not to find things puzzling nor to seek explanations. This is intellectual suicide.
Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there’s nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.
Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?
Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.
You are certainly wrong to compare suicide … with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.
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.
There can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion. Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as a prelude to a new intolerance… Every law-system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law-system and to alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide
Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.
I’m very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know, whether it’s cults or whether it’s suicide bombers.
Eyes Wide Open’ took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!
I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn’t know I could commit suicide at any time.
No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It’s for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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.
suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you – who you really are – do survive.
Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another – the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.
ID cards do not tell the police who is about to commit a suicide bombing.
It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it.
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.
Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.
Every movie that I’ve picked, from my first film on, has been considered by everyone to be ‘career suicide.’ And I have an amazing life. I have an amazing career. I work with artists. But I’m not making ‘Spider-Man.’
The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place.
I think people don’t understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.
I’ve seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn’t cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That’s not right.
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.
Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group.
It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn’t win.
“I have three messages,” said the breathless Nyad.”One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old to chase your dreams. And three is it looks like a solitary sport but it takes a team.”
Well, darkness with humor… I’m not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.
Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide…And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
If you’re looking for the suspect in a suicide bombing, here’s a clue: Look for the dead guy.
You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn’t like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?
Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What’s next, a health care plan?
Never thoughts of suicide, I’m too alive. But I still treat it like it’s do or die.. even though dyin’ isn’t in the plans, but neither was makin’ it and here I am
Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.
The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result
It is best to live however one can be.
War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart and kills love.
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.
I’m usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.
I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.
Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
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.
You realize that suicide’s a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they’d have hung you for it.
If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that there’s no such thing as evil; it’s all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he’s a hero.
Freedom is like a man who kills himself
Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife
Grows sharp in blood.
Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife
Grows sharp in blood.
Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.
Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.
When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: “Why?” He replied: “Because no one admired me.
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
The longest suicide note in history.
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
Talk about cheap – on Christmas Eve, my neighbour shoots off three blanks and tells his kids Santa Claus just committed suicide.
That’s how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.
Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.
The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?
I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.
I like to look on the bright side: Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive.
When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.
There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others
Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.
Political suicide can end a career.
The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits murder.
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
… I didn’t know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.
If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
Most societies die of suicide, not attack.
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.
Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.
Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop.
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night
Suicide is kinda dumb to me. If I wanna kill myself I will. It’s not hard to die, I could do it like right now. But why is everybody pretending like everything’s ok, Everything’s not ok. We are more connected than we’ve ever been, But I feel more alone than I’ve ever been.
The reactionary suicide is вЂwise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a вЂfool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a вЂfool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.
You’ll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide.
As long as children are still getting kicked out of their homes by parents, getting bullied, commuting suicide, et cetera. it’s definitely still worth talking about.
The quick lesson that I learned is that none of the fame part is really real.
Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.
If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?
Leandros’s favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow.
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that’s their problem. But there’s no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook – or accept its inhumane consequences.
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life’s basic consolations.
Last week I told my psychiatrist, ‘I keep thinking about suicide’, and he told me from now I have to pay in advance.
I perform regularly with a theater company called Outside the Wire who take performances of Greek tragedy to American-military audiences around the world to create discussion about PTSD and soldier suicide. It’s one of the greatest things I’ve ever been asked to do as an actor.
I don’t want to die. But I want to be dead.
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
I’m on the verge of suicide, so what’s murder?
And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.
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.
I love the ’70s, I’m very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides.
I thought I was fooling people. But it’s the old thing of ‘they say vodka doesn’t smell’. No, not until you sweat. And you just lie and lie and you think ‘I can deal with this’. And then you finally go, ‘No you can’t’. And then you give up.
Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.
Rationally, I knew these fears were ridiculous. There were no signs, unfortunately, and I would never blame anyone for another person’s suicide. But if everyone felt that way, there wouldn’t be this cruel stigma, would there?
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
…inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
Life without meaning
cannot be borne.
We find a mission
to which we’re sworn
-or answer the call
of Death’s dark horn.
Without a gleaning
of purpose in life,
we have no vision,
we live in strife,
-or let blood fall
on a suicide knife.
cannot be borne.
We find a mission
to which we’re sworn
-or answer the call
of Death’s dark horn.
Without a gleaning
of purpose in life,
we have no vision,
we live in strife,
-or let blood fall
on a suicide knife.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
A Cambridge lady, hearing of the latest Suicide, said to her friend, turning off TV for tea, “Well, my dear, doesn’t it seem a little like going where you haven’t been invited?”
Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.
I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
We don’t judge people for dying in car crashes. But we do judge people when they die of suicide.
Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn’t going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you’ll be somewhere.
It’s just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days…when, you know, I just want to hide or scream or bleed or something, and…all that…
Imitation can be commercial suicide.
Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
Don’t try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.
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.
And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.
If I saw ‘Virgin Suicides’ or ‘Eternal Sunshine,’ I’m so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.
To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.
Anxiety, depression, and suicide don’t discriminate based on how much money you have – though it might make it easier for you to get help.
They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.
Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.
What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?
We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
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.
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.
I thought: This is not racing, it’s a suicide mission.
Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.
It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.
If you are killing time, it’s not murder. It’s suicide.
On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, ‘You have the right to remain silent.’
One of my favorite games when I was a kid was ‘murder/suicide’. Dad would show us a photo and ask us: ‘Is it a murder or a suicide ?’
A woman who ran a feminist organization in India told me one thing that stands out for her is bride burning. If a groom’s family doesn’t like an arranged marriage and they want to get rid of the woman, in-laws may set fire to her in the kitchen, or she may commit suicide in a “kitchen fire”.
Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.
According to your medical checkup, you are dead.
Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don’t know.
I couldn’t commit suicide if my life depended on it.
Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They’re one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
No one teaches you how to do this. How do you let go of someone who you love so much?
I can’t decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling.
You cannot kill an idea by murdering innocent people — though you can nudge it toward suicide.
Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.
What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.
Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn’t seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.
You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.
We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs and be vulnerable to suicide.
People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide.
… I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act I no longer felt sure, but of the dignity of its intransigence I was convinced.
I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.
I think it will be a miracle if I don’t someday end up killing myself.
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
My love, you are in my heart.
It was preordained we should part
And be reunited by and by.
Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
Let’s have no sadness – furrowed brow.
There’s nothing new in dying now
Though living is no newer.
My love, you are in my heart.
It was preordained we should part
And be reunited by and by.
Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
Let’s have no sadness – furrowed brow.
There’s nothing new in dying now
Though living is no newer.
So you grow up with those messages, “You’re a failure, you embarrass me, that’s why I dress you in dark colors etc.” or even when parents commit suicide, the child may think they were a failure as a child causing that. The majority of those people who weren’t loved turn to drugs and alcohol and suicide.
Society makes suicide so romantic. I mean, you watch these TV movies about teen suicide and you want to jump in front of a bus. Because your biggest fantasy is your own funeral. No one will admit to it, but it’s true.
The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.
Now there are reports that Osama bin Laden would like to commit suicide on television. This is the kind of lead-in I have been praying for every since I came to CBS. Bin Laden is planning a televised suicide or, as I call it, hosting the Academy Awards.
Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed.
I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.
Often really what you need is someone who will believe in you, who will encourage you to believe in yourself.
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest
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.
A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
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.
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.
The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.
Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.
I remained basically anonymous for almost 17 years. I, in those 17 years, I tried to commit suicide a couple of times. I was very ashamed of what I had done, and I was looking for forgiveness not only from God but from myself.
Nine Men in Ten are Suicides.
actions speak louder than words
Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?
You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.
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.
Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’.
It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.
The best I can say is that it’s better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It’s better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.
Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we’ll never choose. It’s only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.
I believe in equality for everyone. I believe everyone should have the right to love and commit to whomever they want. […] All I know is that in God’s eyes we are all the same. I just wish we could see through the eyes of God more often.
The atheist suicide bomber is unfaithfully committed to his mission
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.
I lost two of the greatest men I’ve ever known to assassination – and a son to suicide.
They tried to get me – I got them first! [Suicide.]
In 19 years Stockton never once lost a suicide drill in practice. Well, there was one day. He was sick. But he still ran it
Suicide is not a remedy.
Personally, I do not support the concept of suicide bombings. This is not part of our [syrian] culture. But whether you condemn them or not, suicide bombings are a reality.
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn’t work.
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.’ What is it then?’ It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.
I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that [American troops] have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.
How! leap into the pit our life to save?
To save our life leap all into the grave.
To save our life leap all into the grave.
To catch a ball, I’d commit suicide.
I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
If I’m gonna commit suicide, I’ll go out eatin’ pussy to death.
Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.
I think we both need to work on our communication skills. (Kiara) I tried that once. (Nykyrian) And? (Kiara) Darling told me that I could never hold a job as a suicide counselor or hostage negotiator. He said my failure rate would become the stuff of legends. (Nykyrian)
What really surprised me was that more than half of all deaths by gunshot are suicides, more than 20,000 a year, about 58 a day.
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It’s kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.
It’d be cool to chipmunk-ize “The Virgin Suicides” soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.
I try to put myself in others’ shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don’t think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide.
I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide – the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enough of a compensation to atone for its dominantly burthensome quality.
Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.
…occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.
Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it,” said Marvin. “And what happened?” pressed Ford. “It committed suicide,” said Marvin and stalked off back to the Heart of Gold.
I don’t break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property – thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.
Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
My mom always tells me that… Nobody is going to remember you for the great basketball player you are but they will remember you for the character you have off the court and how many lives you’re changed.
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.
Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.
Look may be that everything is right, it is always best to have an inspection before marching. To forget a screw, if you have a loose one, and only discover your loss when you are miles from home and the view before you is “perfect”, is to promote, possibly suicide, certainly profanity.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
Everyone can relate to depression. It touches so many. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Statistics show that women suffer from depression more than men, but that is probably because men don’t report it as much.
Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.
Killing time is not murder, it is suicide.
A matador is a guy who didn’t have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer.
I’ll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill.
The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.
You want to go easy on the suicide stuff – first thing you know, you’ll ruin your health.
Shortly after Eva’s [Braun] second attempt at suicide, [Adolf] Hitler moved quickly, as we discussed already. I can’t tell you how difficult it was for her living at the apartment of our parents. I wasn’t happy there, but Eva was miserable, I can tell you that.
Eric called Al’s suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother’s death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn’t just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.
I look at the tattoo inside my left wrist. It’s my brother’s name, he committed suicide two years ago. Just before the second anniversary of his death, I tattooed his name. I miss him, of course, and I decided I would live for me, and for him.
But we are all insane, anyway … The suicides seem to be the only sane people.
Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.
An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the ‘quality of life’ itself.
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.
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a good bet that there would be no suicide bombers.
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn’t need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.
Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.
We don’t think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot.
One thinks one’s something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one’s just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.
For people considering suicide, it is bullshit. Endure the moment.
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
Stories about sensitive issues like sex, drugs or sexual assault, suicide and teen drinking, are often censored because people just don’t want to talk about those things. It’s not that these things don’t happen, but when they’re shared in a fictional setting, for some reason they make some people uncomfortable.
The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.
Suicide terrorism stops when we stop intervening abroad.
The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
[Film Loulou] is about Loulou, a ghost from the 1920s. She was a flapper and she was a dancer, had kind of a free lifestyle, then she ended up marrying a man who wanted to kind of keep her in the house and control her environment a little bit more and so she committed suicide.
Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
Find what you love and let it kill you.
I’d commit suicide, if I could do it without killing myself.
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.
I can’t really do anything about the past and all I can do is just embrace the future and try to make the most of the present. So I’m really trying to do that and doing my best every day.
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather.
When my reputation was at its height, classmates insulted me right to my face as I walked down the hall. When a teacher called on me, boys snickered and girls rolled their eyes. My body and face burned. I felt mortified. I contemplated suicide.
There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition would be levied and tenure denied. I’ve seen this first-hand.
A suicide kills two people, that’s what it’s for!
As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
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.
I’d fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help
I’m Catholic and I can’t commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.
I don’t persuade to suicide.
You know, the Constitution – there’s nothing like it. But it doesn’t necessarily give us the right to commit suicide as a country, OK? … We’re not gonna allow the people to come into our country. … And if people want to come in, there’s gonna be “Extreme vetting.”
When the bad stuff was really intense in my life, it was really what you would call writer’s block. Your facility is just not as good because you feel so bad. I’ve heard of people right on the verge of suicide coming up with some of their best work. I wish I could think of an example, other than Van Gogh, perhaps!
I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.
There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it’s like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there’s a certain energy that attracts that.
I’m for the death penalty, I’m pro-abortion, I’m pro-assisted suicide, I’m pro-regular suicide. Anything that’ll get the traffic moving.
Caffeine gives me hope. Sometimes, when I brew my wicked strong Irish black tea just perfect, about halfway through the mug I feel a clear and overwhelming feeling of optimism. It didn’t surprise me when a study a few years ago implied that suicide was much less likely among coffee and tea drinkers.
Let’s raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.
… many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.
There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there’d be something I’d miss that was funny in the future. If there’s a chance I’m going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.
It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.
Give a man a suicide bomb, he blows up once. Teach a man to suicide bomb, he also blows up once.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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.
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.
Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide. I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline over herself in the living room, with everyone there, and burned herself alive. Of course, if she hadn’t done this, her father and brothers would probably have killed her anyway.
The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective.
We’re seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.
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.
Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I’m hung up on it.
Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.
There comes a time in each man’s education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.
Besides, I can’t get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I’ve got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can – that’s how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.
If you don’t do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.
You want me to admit I’m a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.
We’ve always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.
The window was still open.” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close it or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever
Just as with homicide, those in the ‘passion’ category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available – those that are easy and quick.
Immitation is suicide.
I want to tell them, “Chip, Kim, there is no way to suicide-proof a person.
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
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.
With suicide, it’s a strange thing in Japanese culture. It’s acceptable. My parents would have been devastated if my attempt had been successful, but they would have somehow accepted it.
The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
We need to look at how we can better fortify our force protection at military installations. But also, how can we deal with these mental health issues with our returning veterans? And our suicide rate in the military is twice as high as the average population.
The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.
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.
No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.
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
My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.
Even nowadays a man can’t step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.
…it is only death which is hopeless.
There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die. I am dying.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.
It was just a terribly stressful situation and dreary. A few months after [Eva Braun] suicide attempt, [Adolf] Hitler moved us both to the apartment, it was in the summer.
When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn’t shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.
The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.
Officials believe that one of the terrorists was a woman. And there are female suicide bombers. It’s just that their reward in paradise is a little different. Instead of getting 72 virgins, they get 72 guys who just listen.
Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be eagerly followed. Few people will commit suicide without a push. And fewer still will pay good money to be told to do what is against human nature and self-interest to do.
If you must commit suicide … always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
I feel it’s such a tragic thing [Kurt Cobain’s suicide]. Here is a guy, a young guy, that had everything in his hands. He could have had a great life. He had a wife, he had a child, he had a fantastic career. He was important to a generation. And for him to do that – I didn’t like that. I thought that was just wrong.
Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard…. Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.
I like people who can’t die in their bed.
Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.
And can a man his own quietus make
with a bare bodkin?
with a bare bodkin?
[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.
The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that’s all they have. The Israelis… they’ve got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.
The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.
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.
Suicide note. “To my friends. My work is done why wait?”
What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.
We’re not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can’t even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.
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.
It’s no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.
Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.
Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don’t ever say ‘Stephen Baldwin’ and ‘ministry’ in the same sentence. I make movies, and in Hollywood, that’s career suicide.
That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.
She sleeps alone at last.
They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it’s always been.
Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The image of your head on the end of a stick is a strong incentive toward ‘visualizing world peace’.
One girl, actually, in the UK — it was a really small show in Wales — a girl came up to me and said that because of one of my songs she was still alive. She’d decided not to commit suicide. It was a really emotional moment.
Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.
Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I’m gonna take my life.
That particular octopus committed suicide, didn’t he? He stabbed himself with his own beak.
Don’t worry Renee, I won’t commit suicide and I won’t burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I’ll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.
So welcome ‘Damsels in Distress,’ an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention… This is the world as Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed.
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?
We will not commit suicide because of pressure from the international community. A Palestinian state is not possible at the moment. I would rather fight and try to explain the situation in the Middle East to the world than to agree to steps that harm my country to satisfy the international community.
Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered from periodic insanity – brought on, so some averred, by the pains of love or the unintended effects of a love philtre.
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
Hemingway shot himself. I don’t like a man that takes the short way home.
Madness is a kind of mental suicide.
And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.
I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.
In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.
My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights.
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it’s bad, it’s really simple.
Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is There’s no-one else to blame.
I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.
I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don’t want to talk about it, they don’t want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don’t understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.
I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn’t high I’d probably blow my brains out.
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
Online I see people committing ‘social media suicide’ all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you’re never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don’t warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.
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.
… suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.
Working hard, and being thoughtful, and generous, and smart; it’s a path to a better life.
Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.
We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.
I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.
Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.
I have had a lot of really close friends and family who have been touched by suicide, and I would never want to make light of it.
I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now.
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the ‘will of the people’ goes out the window.
Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness – an act of trust in the unknown.
I have friends who’ve tried suicide many times and haven’t succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.
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.’
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That’s applicable to any kind of depression.
We decided to speak publicly about suicide because we wanted to make a difference in other people’s lives.
People don’t die from suicide, they die from sadness.
The terrorism of the suicide bomber and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent. To say otherwise (as either side might) is to give one moral superiority over the other, and thus serve to perpetuate the horrors of our time.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
I wanted to be wanted and he was very beautiful, kissed with his eyes closed, and only felt good while moving. You could drown in those eyes, I said, so it’s summer, so it’s suicide, so we’re helpless in sleep and struggling at the bottom of the pool.
A middle-aged woman who looked like someone’s cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face… It didn’t add up. Suicide wasn’t invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
You can’t drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.
Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move…. To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
suicide is a crime – the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
When suicide hit my family, we learned first-hand that no one is immune from what is now the 10th leading cause of death in the US.
It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain’t over ’til it’s over!
The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on.
When you commit your life to something and it doesn’t work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.
…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful.
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.
Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation and entreaty: ‘If you are determined to commit suicide, why not come home and do so in a quiet lady-like manner?’
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.
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.
