Suicide Quotes: A Collection of Powerful Insights

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

Woody Allen, Director

"A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

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

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"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, Actor

"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, Businessman

"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, Psychologist

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

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"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, Philosopher

"Drunkenness is temporary suicide"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"There is something great and terrible about suicide"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"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, Novelist

"Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"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"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand"

Saul Bellow, Novelist

"Political courage is not political suicide"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"The joke of our time is the suicide of intention"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"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"

Camille Paglia, Author

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

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"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"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying"

Robert Quine, Musician

"Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit.""

Bill Maher, Comedian

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

Lexa Doig, Actress

"The Constitution is not a suicide pact"

Richard Belzer, Comedian

"But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that"

Alan Vega, Musician

"I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment"

Alan Vega, Musician

"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"

Judy Collins, Musician

"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

"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, Historian

"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, President

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

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"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, Writer

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