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

"Drunkenness is temporary suicide"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

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

Robert Quine, Musician

"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

"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

"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 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

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

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"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

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

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"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

"There is something great and terrible about suicide"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"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

"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

"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

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

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"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

"Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

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

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"Political courage is not political suicide"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

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

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"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

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

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

"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

"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"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

"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, Journalist

"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

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

Susan Sontag, Author

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

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

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult"

Craig Bruce

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

Saul Bellow, Novelist

"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"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

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