Quotes About Suicide

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Sartre went so far as to say that the only question he could not answer was why he did not commit suicide.

Montag, a funny thing. Heard tell this morning. Fireman in Seattle, purposefully set a Mechanical Hound to his own chemical complex and let it loose. What kind of suicide would you call that?

If I fell from here, it would surely kill me." He let a pebble drop. Moments later it clicked on the rocks below. "The Lord would never forgive me." He tossed another pebble. "It wouldn't be suicide, would it, if I did it out of Love …?

Suicide is in fact a consoling thought. Suicide is the secret door by which you can exit the world at any time—it's wholly up to you. For who can prevent you, if suicide is truly your wish? Who has the moral authority

It was generally known, there was an epidemic of suicide among former soldiers.

The man is too narcissistic, too shallow and cowardly for suicide. Days

I have found that people want and need to explore this subject in their own lives, that the discussion brings needed relief—to all of us. For we all, being human, have some suicide story in our past or our future.

They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Er dachte bereits daran, in sein Gasthaus der Tränen zu gehen und sich dort aufzuhängen, an einem Strick aus Traumfäden.

Living in homes without dads is more correlated with suicide among teenagers than any other factor.16

They're not doing much for themselves. I'm sure they'd rather slip away, relax their fingers and float, but they can't. They're not allowed. Effort is so painful; our knuckles are white, yet we keep clinging. The alternative is suicide- and we are too fearful for that.

Suicide is... the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.

The meaning of life is not something we look for, it is something we create. And by contemplating suicide, we can be fully present at our own creation.

It seems you're one-sixth of your world's remaining population. You're the living marker for a billion people. Given the numbers, I suppose it'd be especially tragic if you threw your life away now. It wouldn't just be suicide. It'd be genocide.

Within a month, five hundred Jews had chosen to kill themselves rather than face another day of torment, including a family of four who lived next door to the Kleins. "They shot themselves, one at a time," Klein said. "I lay in my bed and listened to the whole thing. A shot, followed by sobs. Another shot, more sobs. After the fourth shot, there was no one left to cry, no one but me.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession

I heard she killed herself," Hunter says. "That would explain why she wasn't moving," Max says.

Los resultados pueden ser devastadores. Recientemente, dos estudiantes universitarios en Oklahoma se dieron por vencidos por sus tarjetas de crédito y se suicidaron, dejando las cuentas en la cama junto a ellos.

As he noted in The Daily Signal, children from fatherless homes are likelier to drop out of high school, die by suicide, have behavioral disorders, join gangs, commit crimes, and end up in prison. They are also more likely to live in poverty-stricken households. Conversely, nuclear families—whether black or white—are richer in all ways.