Suicide Quotes

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.

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.

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?

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

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.

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

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.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

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...?

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Suicide is not a remedy.

'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!

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

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.

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.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

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 think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.

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.

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.

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.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

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 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.'