Quotes About Suicide

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

How many of you ever started dating someone because you were too lazy to commit suicide?

Have you ever dated someone because you were too lazy to commit suicide?

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

What greater insult can you give God than to take your own life?

It was a really interesting thing to explore, the strength it takes for someone to stay when they truly do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

The rooms in those days were unfashionably sad enough to commit suicide in, and, in fact, that to me was the Château's charm, that it didn't have any objections to one's committing suicide. Things since then had gone steadily downhill

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

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.

Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.

But when a person commits suicide, he does not do violence only to himself; he inflicts death upon those whom he least considered would be so afflicted.

No, no son los pájaros. No es un pájaro el que expresa la turbia fiebre de la laguna, ni el ansia de asesinato que nos oprime cada momento, ni el metálico rumor de suicidio que nos anima cada madrugada.

El suicidio es un arte como otro cualquiera. De los pocos, sin embargo, cuya consumación no requiere ni un largo aprendizaje ni una dilatada experiencia.

Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Mi juventud no ha sido más que un largo suicidio. Me apresuraba a desagradar sólo por el temor de desagradar naturalmente.

Bunny does not want to kill herself. She does not want to die. It's that she no longer wants to live. To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.

Suicide offers quick authority over a life that feels it has lost all agency.

They concluded that every suicide can be explained as "an attempt to maintain or enhance the self." The mind is maintained at the expense of the life of the being. The mind survives by being right. The mind would rather be right and die than be wrong and live.

There have been cases in which pedophiles have done themselves harm after being caught.' 'Is that a fact? So you were worried that your entrapment might cause my client to attempt suicide?' 'Something like that, yes.' Flair put his hand to his chest. 'I'm touched.' 'Your Honor!' Portnoi shouted. Flair waved him off again. 'So you wanted to save my client?

Mental ailments are destroying blacks, as well: Black women suffer the highest rates of stress and major depression in the nation and suicide rates soared 200 percent among young black men within just twenty years.

She was disgusted with herself...and the disgust permanently cured her of suicide. Her piddling life did not deserve dramatic remedies.

It's not so easy for people to end their own lives. It's not like in the movies. There, they do it like nothing, no pain, and it's all over, they're dead. The reality is not like that. You lie in bed for ten years with the piss oozing out of you.