Quotes About Suicide

But Aomame could never smile easily, or casually, in front of people. When she forced it, she ended up with a tight sneer, which made others even more tense and uncomfortable. Tamaki was different: she had a natural, cheerful smile. People meeting her for the first time immediately felt friendly toward her. In the end, though, disappointment and despair drove Tamaki to take her own life, leaving Aomame – who couldn't manage a decent smile – behind.

Perhaps he didn't commit suicide then because he couldn't conceive of a method that fit the pure and intense feelings he had toward death. But method was beside the point. If there had been a door within reach that led straight to death, he wouldn't have hesitated to push it open, without a second thought, as if it were just a part of ordinary life. For better or for worse, though, there was no such door nearby.

It is with great regret that we must announce that so great was Miss Budget Jones's distress at not being able to accept the kind invitation of Mr. Mark Darcy that she has offed herself and will therefore, more certainly than ever, now, be unable to accept Mr. Mark Darcy's kind.

You know when I really realized like 'wow' what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide.

I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.

When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'

Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide.

No man should put an end to this life to obtain that better life we look for after death, for those who die by their own hand have no better life after death.

no se suicida quien no ve esperanza, sino quien la ve y no tiene ni el remedio ni la paciencia para esperar su venida.

Alle volkeren voelen nu dat er een vreemde schaduw breed en zwaar boven hun leven hangt. Maar wij, die nog de wereld van de individuele vrijheid hebben gekend, wij weten en kunnen getuigen dat Europa zich ooit zorgeloos verheugde in zijn caleidoscopische kleurenspel. En wij gruwen als wij zien hoe vol schaduwen, duister, vol slavernij en kerkers onze wereld dankzij zijn suïcidale razernij geworden is.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

Optimists often kill themselves when they realize they can't be optimists anymore.

it kind of seemed like we were in a constant state of suicide the whole time. It wasn't like, 'Gee, we're going to become successful and make a lot of money.' It was more like, 'Man, we're going to have a lot of fun before the end comes and we all hit the can.

More inmates died of suicide than the needle on death row in California.

There are three roads that can be taken in recovery. There is the clean path of sobriety and there is the road to relapse. The third way is the fast out. It is when the traveler realizes that relapse is just a slow suicide and there is no reason to wait.

he knew why, just as he knew that George Irving's death would have been written off as a suicide with Crate

The air they drove through was clear and crisp. They kept the windows up and their expectations down. The call was a suicide run. They

That guy might look like Arnold but it can't possibly be Arnold because Arnold would never be out alone on a bike at seven in the morning, trying to commit suicide.

Unfortunately the interview she had lined up with a homeless girl cannot now be done, as the girl killed herself yesterday. She was the third suicide in a week at this hostel. Apparently when one goes, there is often a 'domino' effect.

Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.