Suicide Quotes

"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

"Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"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

"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

"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

"People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite"

Brent Spiner, Actor

"You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide"

Charles King, Politician

"Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention"

Malcolm Fraser, Politician

"One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot"

F. H. Bradley, Philosopher

"Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally"

Anne Stevenson, Poet

"The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs"

A. B. Yehoshua, Novelist

"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

"I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003"

Jim Gerlach, Politician

"We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys"

Bruce Sterling, Writer

"In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate"

Gary Cherone, Musician

"The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history"

Greg Knight, Politician

"We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide"

Friedrich List, Economist

"Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide"

Hun Sen, Statesman

"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat"

Antonin Artaud, Dramatist

"Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon"

Emile Durkheim, Sociologist

"I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it"

Lesley Boone, Actress

"Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide"

Henri Barbusse, Novelist

"Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world"

Henry Brooks Adams

"I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit"

Travis Barker, Musician

"Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible"

Ricky Martin, Musician

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