Quotes About Suicide

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

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.

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

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

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

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.

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

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.

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.

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.