“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.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.'” – Bill Maher
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.” – Aristotle
“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.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!” – Arthur Miller
“There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.” – Daniel Webster
“Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.” – Woodrow Wilson
“He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.” – Woody Allen
“When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.” – Edward Dahlberg
“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.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.” – Gore Vidal
“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.” – Byron Katie
“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.” – Robert Crumb
“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?” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.” – Zane Grey
“No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.” – Robert Byrne
“If you don’t do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.” – Josef Albers
“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.” – Fran Lebowitz
“Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn’t been.” – Claire Forlani
“Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.” – Karl A. Menninger
“Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.” – Dick Cavett
“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.” – Charles Caleb Colton
“I have a suicide impulse.” – Hal Holbrook
“Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.” – Emil Cioran
“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.” – Frank Darabont
“There is something great and terrible about suicide.” – Honore de Balzac
“She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.” – Saul Bellow
“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.” – Octavia E. Butler
“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.” – Neil Gorsuch
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.” – Phil Donahue
“It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” – Abraham Lincoln
“So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it’s bad, it’s really simple.” – Damien Hirst
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” – John Adams
“No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.” – Cesare Pavese
“Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.” – Henri Barbusse
“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.” – Ryan Gosling
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“Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.” – Franz Liszt
“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.” – Victor Hugo
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.” – Bertrand Russell
“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” – Arnold J. Toynbee
“Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.” – Al Green
“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.” – Emile Durkheim
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.” – Albert Camus
“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.” – Gerard Way
“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.” – Judd Nelson
“We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.” – Luke Richardson
“The great thing about suicide is that it’s not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.” – Harvey Fierstein
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we’ll get somewhere.” – Peter Lynch
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. Joel Sternfeld
“Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.” – Lexa Doig
“Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.” – Friedrich List
“Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.” – Martin Heidegger
“The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don’t know how another person experiences pain – physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it ‘weariness of life.'” – Miriam Toews
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. Jodi Picoult
“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.” – Henry Adams
“Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.” – Jack Nicholson
“If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don’t marry and have kids, and above all, don’t die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
“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.” – Tim Ferriss
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“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?” – Jennifer Ashton
“When someone isn’t ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they’re gay and it’s horrible.” – Ricky Martin
“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.” – Eli Roth
“Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” – John Adams
“The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.” – Damien Hirst
“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.” – Pollyanna McIntosh
“A lot of people told me that I’m committing musical suicide with my sound.” – Kid Rock
“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.” – Jennifer Ashton
“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?” – Adrienne Rich
“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.” – Martin Van Creveld
“I thought: This is not racing, it’s a suicide mission.” – Barry Sheene
“In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.” – Thornton Wilder
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. – Neil Gorsuch
It wasn’t until ’94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn’t about the money. – Vanilla Ice
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. – Antonin Artaud
But of course it’s always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can’t ever get rid of that. – Alan Vega
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. – Ezekiel Emanuel
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide. – Karl A. Menninger
There’s this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s. – Graham Moore
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Let teens know that suicide is almost always the result of a complex mix of factors rather than a single event such as a breakup or bullying. It can be related to a sometimes undiagnosed mental disorder such as depression. – Jennifer Ashton
The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it’s always been. – Randall Terry
Political courage is not political suicide. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
Suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated – preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. – Thomas Sowell
Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide. – Hun Sen
Suicide doesn’t solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse. – Sinead O’Connor
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. – Thomas Huxley
They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult. – Craig Bruce
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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. – Neil Gorsuch
It wasn’t until ’94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn’t about the money. – Vanilla Ice
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. – Antonin Artaud
But of course it’s always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can’t ever get rid of that. – Alan Vega
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. – Ezekiel Emanuel
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide. – Karl A. Menninger
There’s this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s. – Graham Moore
Let teens know that suicide is almost always the result of a complex mix of factors rather than a single event such as a breakup or bullying. It can be related to a sometimes undiagnosed mental disorder such as depression. – Jennifer Ashton
The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it’s always been. – Randall Terry
Political courage is not political suicide. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
Suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated – preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. – Thomas Sowell
Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide. – Hun Sen
Suicide doesn’t solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse. – Sinead O’Connor
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. – Thomas Huxley
They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult. – Craig BruceCopySearch WebSummarizeDeleteDelete
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. – Bruce Sterling
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. – Susan Sontag
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. – Paul Stanley
Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia. – Ezekiel Emanuel
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion. – Reza Aslan
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. – Mario Cuomo
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. – Pink
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. – Michael McCaul
They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention. – Malcolm Fraser
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. – Harry S Truman
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. – Travis Bradberry
The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing. – George Carey
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago. – Ezekiel Emanuel
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth… suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. – Julie Burchill
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. Paul Watzlawick
The only moral question with suicide bombing is who the target is. And in that sense, the suicide bomber is no different from the stealth bomber or the cruise missile. If it is targeted at civilian people, then it is morally wrong, whether done by Bush, Blair, or a suicide bomber. – George Galloway
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. – Jodi Picoult
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. – Joel Sternfeld
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. – Bill Skarsgard
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. Kevin Mitnick
Suicidal Quotes
I’m not glorifying it at all, I’m just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it’s not that deep. ASAP Rocky
I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal. – Byron Katie
In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal. – William Bernbach
‘Green’ is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election – largely in response to George Bush’s suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues. – Zac Goldsmith
It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves. – Wilfrid Laurier
My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent. – Alex Campbell
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter. – Maya Angelou
Responsible statesmen have only one choice – to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal. – Yuri Andropov
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. – Dave Navarro
There are people who are just suicidal, regardless. They are built to self-destruct. It seems, in my family, like a virus that’s resistant to any kind of help or care or medication. – Miriam Toews
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. – Rem Koolhaas
Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation – that’s what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything. – Courtney Love
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. – Aron Ralston
I won’t say I wouldn’t be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn’t be suicidal if it didn’t happen. – Tom Wilkinson
For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times. – Jack Osbourne
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who’s seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they’re being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression. – Robert Nozick
In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn’t last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the ’60’s is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort. – Archie Shepp
“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.” ― Ned Vizzini
“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.” ― Osamu Dazai
