Suicidal Quotes - Page 5

• Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Names, Tragedy

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• 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

  Suicide, Giving, Special

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

  F. H. Bradley

  Suicide

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 48, 1930.

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

  Ezra Pound

  Suicide, Literature, Bumps

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• To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]

  Lupe Velez

  Suicide, Baby, Forgive Me

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• And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.

  Ogden Nash

  Suicide, Feet, Down And

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now

  Sara Teasdale

  Suicide, Rain, Hair

  Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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• Nine Men in Ten are Suicides.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Suicide, Men, Would Be

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suicide, Nature, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• Suicide kills two people.

  Arthur Miller

  Suicide, Two, People

  After the Fall act 2 (1964)

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• Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

  Margaret Cho

  Kindness, Reality, Generosity

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• All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous.
  Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain body

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Emotional, Irritation

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.188, New World Library

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• The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our bodies with misfortune and harm. Hence it comes that he often breaks men's necks or drives them to insanity, drowns some, and incites many to commit suicide, and to many other terrible calamities. Therefore there is nothing for us to do upon earth but to pray against this arch enemy without ceasing. For unless God preserved us, we would not be safe from him even for an hour.

  Martin Luther

  Suicide, Liars, Men

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• You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.

  Franz Kafka

  Thinking, Needs, Dare

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• ...it is only death which is hopeless.

  Maria Jane McIntosh

  Suicide, Hopeless

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• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Growing Up, Maturity

  "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1972.

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• ...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this world under certain conditions and for specific purposes. But a suicide opposes the purpose of his creator; he arrives in the other world as one who has deserted his post; he must be looked upon as a rebel against God. God is our owner; we are his property; his providence works for our good.

  Immanuel Kant

  Suicide, Light, Other Worlds

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• Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.

  James Buchan

  Suicide, War, Struggle

  "A history of suicide killers" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2001.

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• Life without meaning
  cannot be borne.
  We find a mission
  to which we're sworn
  -or answer the call
  of Death's dark horn.
  Without a gleaning
  of purpose in life,
  we have no vision,
  we live in strife,
  -or let blood fall
  on a suicide knife.

  Dean Koontz

  Suicide, Fall, Dark

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• The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sacrifice, Mind, Stubborn

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.198, Faber & Faber

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• ... I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act I no longer felt sure, but of the dignity of its intransigence I was convinced.

  Phillip Lopate

  Suicide, Moral, Dignity

  Phillip Lopate (1991). “Against Joie De Vivre”, Holiday House

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• The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being.

  Thomas Merton

  Evil, World, Neglect

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.222, Image

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• Without fear I go now to God. Your future is what you will choose today.

  Malachi Ritscher

  Choices, Today, Your Future

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• Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.

  Elsa Lanchester

  Home, Comedian, Comedy

  Elsa Lanchester (1938). “Charles Laughton and I”, Harcourt, Brace and company

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• Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Suicide, Long, Steps

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