"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian"

"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"

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

"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide"

"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder"

"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"

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide"