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Quotes About Suicide

Suicide by media can take a lifetime.
~ Mark Ebner
According to Seneca, Apicius committed suicide because, having spent one tenth of a considerable fortune on his kitchen, he realized that he could not long continue in the style he had chosen.
~ Mark Kurlansky
A 1670 revision of the criminal code found yet another use for salt in France. To enforce the law against suicide, it was ordered that the bodies of people who took their own lives be salted, brought before a judge, and sentenced to public display. Nor could the accused escape their day
~ Mark Kurlansky
Demographically and psychologically, Europeans have chosen to commit societal suicide, and their principal heir and beneficiary will be Islam.
~ Mark Steyn
Multiculturalism is really a suicide cult conceived by the western elites not to celebrate all cultures, but to deny their own. And that's particularly unworthy of the British, whose language, culture, and law have been the single greatest force for good in this world.
~ Mark Steyn
I wrapped the cord around my neck, leaned forward with my full body weight, and ended my life. That thought was what got me through.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.
~ Anthony Burgess
Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.
~ Anthony Burgess
Se ha llegado a decir que «matar el tiempo no es asesinato, sino suicidio».
~ Anthony Robbins
De man is dood. En als hij echt dood wilde had een gedwongen opname toch niet geholpen, dat is Kadoke's misschien wat fatalistische opvatting; zij die vastbesloten zijn te sterven vinden altijd wel een manier. Hij kan eigenlijk alleen de twijfelaars beschermen, zij die onzeker zijn, die zich nog wel willen bedenken, voor wie de allerergste wanhoop niet meer is dan een fase.
~ Arnon Grunberg
My wife killed herself. He said, My wife took her life, like a rhyme. Do you blame yourself? She had often said it, that she would. She'd had every kind of treatment. Eventually it becomes hard to know how to handle it. Like Dora: I can always die, always die. Caro said, There is the damage on both sides.
~ Shirley Hazzard
go." "In effect, she did. I really think the poor girl was hated to death; she hanged herself, by the way. Gossip says she hanged herself
~ Shirley Jackson
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
~ Sigmund Freud
people have said that were it not for suicide they could not go on.
~ Sigrid Nunez
The only animal that commits suicide is also the only animal that weeps. Though I've heard that stags brought to bay, exhausted from the hunt, with no escape from the hounds, sometimes shed tears. Crying elephants have also been reported, and of course people will tell you anything about their cats and dogs.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Stevie Smith calling Death the only god who must come when he's called tickled you pink, as did the various ways people have said that were it not for suicide they could not go on.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Unlike when a young person commits suicide, which could never be anything but a mistake.
~ Sigrid Nunez
The only animal that commits suicide is also the only animal that weeps.
~ Sigrid Nunez
And just because there are other people who've lost someone to suicide doesn't mean that what I'm feeling is something that can be shared.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Is this because I think suicide can be justifiable? Plato thought so. Seneca thought so. But what do I think? Why do I think you did it? Because you were trapped upside down in a tankful of water. Because you were weak and in pain. Because you were tired of fighting.
~ Sigrid Nunez
El suicidio, bajo mi punto de vista, no constituye un crimen legal ni moral, y nadie debería considerarlo como tal.
~ Simon Critchley
Quien no haya concebido jamás su propia anulación, quien no haya presentido el recurso a la cuerda, a la bala, al veneno o al mar, es un recluso envilecido o un gusano reptante sobre la carroña cósmica.
~ Simon Critchley
Cioran escribe que «sólo se suicidan los optimistas, los optimistas que ya no logran serlo. Los demás, no teniendo ninguna razón para vivir, ¿por qué la tendrían para morir?»
~ Simon Critchley
Human nature is a strange mixture, Watson. You see that even a villain and murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited.
~ Sir Author Conan Doyle