Suicide Quotes

"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"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live"

Peter McWilliams, Writer

"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"

Spalding Gray, Actor

"A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound"

Kid Rock, Musician

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

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown"

Ezra Pound, Poet

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

Bill Maher, Comedian

"Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"Suicide is not a remedy"

James A. Garfield, President

"I have a suicide impulse"

Hal Holbrook, Actor

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

Rip Taylor, Comedian

"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

"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide"

John Adams, President

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide"

John Adams, President

"There aren't many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory - it'd be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it's strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places"

Sean Booth, Musician

"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

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

Josef Albers, Artist

"Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances"

Robert Crumb, Artist

"Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"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

"I don't persuade to suicide"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"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"

Judy Collins, Musician

"For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries"

Judy Collins, Musician

"Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression"

Judy Collins, Musician

"It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide"

Charlie Hunnam, Actor

"Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers"

Chris Chocola, Politician

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

Alan Vega, Musician

"On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'"

Mitt Romney, Politician

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

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"The Constitution is not a suicide pact"

Richard Belzer, Comedian

"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

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

Lexa Doig, Actress

"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

"It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money"

Vanilla Ice, Musician

"Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates"

Saddam Hussein, Criminal

"When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels"

Edward Dahlberg, Novelist

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