Suicide Quotes - Page 16

• Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste.

  Roger McGuinn

  Peace, Hate, Men

  Song: The Trees Are All Gone

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Kids, Dumb, Mind

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Thinking, Drug Use, Choices

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.7, Vintage

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.

  Jonathan Ames

  Trying, Poison, Want

  Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.36, Pushkin Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

  Barbara Lee

  Soldier, Ptsd, Incidents

  6 Copy quote

• That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.

  Andrew Solomon

  Loss, Essence, Chance

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Immitation is suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  4 Copy quote

• Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.

  Peter D. Kramer

  Bipolar, Certificates, Dies

  8 Copy quote

• Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  America, Bipolar, Despair

  12 Copy quote

• I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Bipolar, Optimist, Temperament

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.309, Vintage

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

  Art Buchwald

  New York, Bipolar, Pages

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide.

  Pat Buchanan

  Hell, Satanism, Aids

  16 Copy quote

• I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

  Peter Benchley

  Suicidal, Hopeful, Anticipation

  4 Copy quote

• To catch a ball, I'd commit suicide.

  Torii Hunter

  Balls, Commit

  4 Copy quote

• There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'

  Allen West

  Simple, Tolerance, Black

  5 Copy quote

• There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

  Stephen King

  Way, Great Men, Commit

  Stephen King (1990). “The Stand”, Signet Book

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Punishment, Way, Crime

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Example, Borders, Amazon

  5 Copy quote

• There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?

  Auberon Waugh

  Boys, Hands, Long

  9 Copy quote

• A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

  Arthur Miller

  Death, Two, People

  "The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays".

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.

  David Korten

  Goal, People, Community

  6 Copy quote

• In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose of life, we would feel compelled to commit suicide. If, however, we accept that life has no purpose we would be inclined to soldier on in a cussed, stoical manner like Sisyphus, endlessly pushing his rock up a hill only to see it roll down again.

  Philip French

  Life, Death, Rocks

  "Feathered frenzy" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2005.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.

  T. H. White

  Issues, Alive, Aviation

  "England Have My Bones". Book by T. H. White, 1936.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Death, Pain, Order

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

  Judy Collins

  Needs, Helping, Mental Health

  16 Copy quote