Quotes About Suicide

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.

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.

'Birdman' is basically 'All About Eve' - the 1950 comedy about rehearsal rivalries in a Broadway show, and another Best Picture laureate - reimagined as a Batman suicide mission. The movie couldn't be actor-ier.

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.

We decided to speak publicly about suicide because we wanted to make a difference in other people's lives.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

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.

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.

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

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.

When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.

The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide.

When suicide hit my family, we learned first-hand that no one is immune from what is now the 10th leading cause of death in the US.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

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.

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.

If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available - those that are easy and quick.

Rationally, I knew these fears were ridiculous. There were no signs, unfortunately, and I would never blame anyone for another person's suicide. But if everyone felt that way, there wouldn't be this cruel stigma, would there?

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide...

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.