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Quotes About Suicide

As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
~ Abraham Verghese
The Trevor Project provides crisis-intervention and suicide-prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens and young adults. It's truly a lifeline to so many young people who just need someone to listen to them.
~ Eric McCormack
The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned.
~ Richard Drew
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.
~ Judy Collins
I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Committing suicide is like stepping off the rollar coaster, once you are on, dont you wait till it ends? no matter what it does to you
~ Haritha Velpureddy
I hate myself, and I want to die
~ Kurt Cobain
its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
~ Ned Vizzini
No one commits suicide because they want to die.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Suicide is a permanent decision to a temporary feeling.
~ Stephen Arterburn
think suicides are the saddest deaths of all. It means someone has decided that life has no part for them to play any more.
~ Stephen Booth
When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.
~ Stephen Crane
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
~ Stephen Leacock, 1912
Urges like the loony who enjoys strangling, it's his buzz. He gets depressed when in seclusion, as he can't strangle anybody so in the end he hangs himself in turmoil. Their brain can't handle it. He wants so bad to kill, but they will not let him, so he has to kill himself.
~ Stephen Richards
Suicides - you read of it…but you don't know the truth, if you were to see it you would go insane! Cut throats, cut wrists, hangings, suffocating, eyes bulging and tongues protruding, more shit. Suicides always shit themselves, did you know that! Life's final shit, the final act of madness; smell that you rats! Clean me up you pigs, zip me up in the bag you scum and get me out of here… Get me the fuck out of here…get me out!
~ Stephen Richards
The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.
~ Stephen W. Hawking
Believing the monster was preparing to ram his yacht, Bud Harris panicked. Drunk, depressed, and suddenly quite terrified of meeting the same horrible fate as his lover, the millionaire shoved the gun into his mouth and pulled the trigger, blasting the back of his head open like a ripe watermelon.
~ Steve Alten
Do patnácti let v?ku umírají (chlapci) t?ikrát ?ast?ji než d?v?ata, a to z nejr?zn?jších p?í?in - ale nejvíce následkem úrazu, násilí a pokusu o sebevraždu.
~ Steve Biddulph
Williams and his researcher marveled morbidly about how incompetent some of these suicide bombers seemed to be. One had strapped on his vest, traveled to say goodbye to his parents, and accidentally detonated his device during the visit, taking his own life and theirs. But when Williams reflected on it, the pattern seemed tragic. Presumably such failures indicated how many suicide bombers recruited to die in Afghanistan might be coerced, naïve, illiterate, young, or disabled.4
~ Steve Coll
The USS Cole was a billion-dollar command and attack ship equipped with computer-linked radar that could follow more than one hundred airplanes, ships, and missile targets at once. It had relatively little defense, however, against three suicide bombers in a thousand-dollar skiff.
~ Steve Coll
If I weren't so depressed, I'd kill myself.
~ Steve Kluger
A victim mentality is a prolonged form of suicide."
~ Steve Maraboli
He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly
~ Steven Erikson
So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so.
~ Mercedes McCambridge