Quotes About Suicide

If a picture on the wall can remember, you remember that this is not the first time. If a picture on the wall can know things, you know that he has tried to leap out of that window before, and he is about to try again. He is trying to kill himself. He has tried nine times in the past fifty days. If a picture on the wall can regret, you regret this. It is a terrible waste for this man to keep trying to kill himself, since he does not at all want to die.

State I call it where all drink poison, the good and the wicked; state, where all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; state, where the slow suicide of all is called life.

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

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.

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I'd become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

They were sitting on a small bench near the Kropotkin Gate when Svetlana mentioned the subject of suicide. Sinyavsky replied, "A suicide only thinks that he is killing himself. He is killing only his body, and the soul after that languishes, for God alone can take the soul."3 Svetlana may have remembered Grandmother Olga's words: "You will know your soul when it aches.

it looked as if we were all connected by my husband's suicide, it was in fact love which connected us.

Suicide doesn't end pain; it multiplies it exponentially and transfers it to those who loved you.

If you're ever tempted by suicidal thoughts, stop and really think about what this will do to your dog. Because your dog will never be the same.

o suicida prepara o seu suicídio como uma obra de arte.

After all, when the behavior of another person leaves you no choice but to kill them, their murder is simply involuntary suicide.

When you're in an extreme situation you tend to avoid facing it by getting caught up in little details. Like a guy who's decided to commit suicide and boards a train only to become obsessed with whether he remembered to lock the door when he left home.

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.

Spirituality does not mean moving away from life; it means becoming alive to the core, in the fullest possible way. With age, physical agility may diminish, but the level of joy and aliveness need not. If your level of joy and aliveness is declining, you are committing suicide in installments.

Algunas mañanas me despertaba y el dolor era tan enorme que quería terminar con todo, pero entonces pensaba: «No, Ted, hoy no te puedes suicidar. Estás a mitad de un libro estupendo».

I will never be that old, thinks Joanne. I will die before I'm thirty. She knows this absolutely. It's a tragic but satisfactory thought. If necessary, if some wasting disease refuses to carry her off, she'll do it herself, with pills. She is not at all unhappy but she intends to be, later. It seems required.

After the service was over, I whispered to one of my fellow staff members, If I commit suicide, I'll tattoo a message on my body. People will read the message on my body, if my dead body alone is not communication enough. I will make my message clear. Well, he shrugged, they could always just close the lid of the coffin.

I thought of the "Roman way" of impaling oneself on a sword. Certainly poison seemed more civilized. And I thought the Romans were a little too eager to commit suicide. It did not take much of a setback before they were reaching for their swords, or opening their veins.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)

Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.