Quotes About Suicide

in 1906, ill and depressed, unhappy about the continuing opposition of many leading scientists to this kinetic theory of gases, he killed himself

True enough," Peter answered, sighing deeply. "But I'm thinking that no one exactly seems like the type who would kill themselves, until they do, and then, all of a sudden everyone around here nods their heads and says, 'Why of course …' because it seems so damn obvious.

her jump off the George Washington Bridge. Her other attorney

Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business

If you cannot bear it, there's always the knife. Suicide, and back into Satan's hands. He wished he didn't know the shiver that crept up his neck was desire and not terror. Back into his hands whenever he wants you. And you cannot pretend you did it for Will.

Uncle Nick was very sick—so sick—and he was very sad. So he chose to end his life with a gun." Once the trauma of the event passed, I made sure my son understood our family history and what options were available for those struggling with depression. Silence and mental illness are not a very effective combination.

For who plans suicide sitting in the sun?

In the end, the historians record rather vaguely, he pursued a course of slow suicide, embarking on a bout of massive over-indulgence which brought about first oblivion and then the death he sought – a death whose timing he had himself predicted years before.

Silly little plastic belt, made for a skinny pinny; it could barely tie around her. She managed, though - a tiny white bow. Waiting, she folded her hands and realized how every single time she went by this hospital, the same two thoughts occurred to her: that she'd been born here and that her father's body had been brought here after his suicide. She'd been through some things, but never mind. She straightened her back. Other people had been through things, too.

Rimase seduta al tavolo di cucina, con la schiena curva e la mano posata sul grosso stomaco. Il pensiero che in qualunque momento ne avesse sentito il bisogno avrebbe potuto uccidersi le attraversò la mente. Non era la prima volta in vita sua che ci pensava, ma in precedenza rifletteva sempre sul biglietto da lasciare.

Seneca's solution to life's inevitable cruelties was to withdraw. It was an increasingly attractive reaction in the later imperial age. The wise man must shun unnecessary human contact and connections, Seneca said. He must live within, and for, himself. He must cultivate the virtue of apatheia, literally an indifference to the fate of others—apathy even, in the last moment, to his own fate (faced by unjust accusations by the emperor Nero, Seneca and his wife chose suicide).

Fallire un suicidio non è poi la cosa più tragica al mondo: non si può riuscire sempre in tutto.

Før avreisen advarte obersten alle mot å forsøke å begå selvmord mens han var borte. Og ingen måtte dra til Nordkapp på egen hånd. Obersten sa at han begynte å få nok av selvtektstendensene i gruppa.

Il capitano di lunga secca Mikko Heikkinen era fermamente convinto che una decisione importante e irrevocabile come quella del suicidio non andava presa a mente lucida, senza il conforto di un buon cicchetto.

w?a?nie reklamy s? najwi?ksz? przyczyn? porywania si? Finów na w?asne ?ycie. Czy warto ?y?, gdy nie ma si? za co kupi? tych wszystkich wspania?o?ci, jakie co chwila kto? im podtyka pod nos?

Dessuten mente kvinnene at hvis de begikk kollektivt selvmord på dette tidspunktet, ville det bare resultere i et stort antall usedvanlig stygge lik. Aldeles groteske, hvis en så nærmere på heltene.

It was probable that the widow knew more than others suspected of insanity in the Buchenau family, for there was an unsolved mystery lying half a century in the past, when Clara's uncle Hugo, a darkly moody man, had shot himself in an orchard one May morning, scattering his brains among the blossoms, and soon after, Clara's father had sunk into a deep depression and had at last to be taken to Mendota as insane, and there died.

Islam is not unusual in having a tradition of martyrs. What is unique to Islam is the tradition of murderous martyrdom, in which the individual martyr simultaneously commits suicide and kills others for religious reasons.

Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide. I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline over herself in the living room, with everyone there, and burned herself alive. Of course, if she hadn't done this, her father and brothers would probably have killed her anyway.

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.

The truth is that no one ever knew how Joseph Buquet met his death. The verdict at the inquest was natural suicide. In

One does not, I think, kill oneself without a definite desire to do so. It is hardly ever an act to which a man must key himself up; it is a temptation which he must struggle against.

Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It is less wrong that you should see me than that you should be committing this long suicide.

For a long while she lived in the hope that my evident wretchedness would drive me to the commission of suicide; but suicide was not in my nature. I was too completely swayed by the sense that I was in the grasp of unknown forces, to believe in my power of self-release.