Suicide Quotes

"Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully"

Julie Burchill, Journalist

"The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite"

Brent Spiner, Actor

"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"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide"

Charles King, Politician

"Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention"

Malcolm Fraser, Politician

"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"

Everett Dirksen, Politician

"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, Poet

"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"

Anne Stevenson, Poet

"The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs"

A. B. Yehoshua, Novelist

"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"

Silvan Shalom, Politician

"As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident"

Peter Greene, Actor

"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"

Silvan Shalom, Politician

"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, Actor

"If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide"

Josef Albers, Artist

"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"

Jim Gerlach, Politician

"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, Writer

"In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate"

Gary Cherone, Musician

"The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history"

Greg Knight, Politician

"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"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

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

Friedrich List, Economist

"Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide"

Hun Sen, Statesman

"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, Dramatist

"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, Sociologist

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

Lesley Boone, Actress

"Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide"

Henri Barbusse, Novelist

"Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world"

Henry Brooks Adams

"I have a suicide impulse"

Hal Holbrook, Actor

"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"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit"

Travis Barker, Musician

"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"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens"

Rip Taylor, Comedian

"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, Musician

"My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact"

Roseanne Barr, Actress

"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, Clergyman

"Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"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"

Sonny Rollins, Musician

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