Suicide Quotes

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

"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

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

Kid Rock, Musician

"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

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

"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

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

Saul Bellow, Novelist

"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

"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"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

"Suicide is not a remedy"

James A. Garfield, President

"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

"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

"The Constitution is not a suicide pact"

Richard Belzer, Comedian

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

Lexa Doig, Actress

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

Saddam Hussein, Criminal

"A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers"

Arthur Hertzberg, Theologian

"Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse"

Sinead O'Connor, Musician

"What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death"

Zane Grey, Author

"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

"Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

"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 can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"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

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