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Quotes About Suicide

Please don't humiliate me by killing yourself before we can save your life.
~ Kristin Hannah
We can argue all we want about how different guns were in the 1790s, when it took a minute to fire three shots, and about the correlation between the numbers of guns and gun deaths in the contemporary world, and how Australia's 1996 roundup program worked. Those debates are academic, however. In this instance, the Constitution apparently is a suicide pact, and not just metaphorically.
~ Kurt Andersen
Look on the bright side, suicide Lost eyesight I'm on your side Angel left wing, right wing, broken wing Lack of iron and/or sleeping Protector of the kennel Ecto-plasma, Ecto-skeletal Obituary birthday Your scent is still here in my place of recovery!" ~
~ Kurt Cobain
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I was just thinking of bundling up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks at Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile. "I could use your assistance." "Unfortunately, you may have to delay your plans for suicide a bit longer. Gabriel Lightwood is downstairs, and I have two words for you. Two of your favorite words, at least when you put them together." "'Utter simpleton'?" inquired Will. "'Worthless upstart'?" Jem grinned. "'Demon pox,'" he said.
~ Cassandra Clare
If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Suicide and sexual diseases. Two great killers of the Viennese, from the highest born to the lowest.
~ Geraldine Brooks
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
~ Gerard Way
Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.
~ Glen Duncan
A 2008 study conducted by Specialty Research Associates shows that the rates of teen sex, pregnancy, and venereal disease, along with crime, illiteracy, drug use, and suicide, started going through the roof almost immediately following the 1962 Supreme Court decision that ended teacher-led prayer in public schools.
~ Glenn Beck
it was a case of making an impressionable, mentally ill woman believe that she was Anastasia Romanov. Their deception began with Anna Anderson's supposed suicide attempt in a Berlin canal, and her amazing story was born." "Anna Anderson was a decoy?" "Pure and simple. To deflect the world from the truth.
~ Glenn Meade
True insanity, as frightening as it might be, gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in a life. People who commit suicide are struggling to order their existence, and when they see it's a losing battle, they will finalize it rather than have it wrenched from them. Insanity wouldn't permit that type of clarity.
~ Gloria Naylor
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.
~ Mark Twain, 1898
I had thought of suicide when I was much younger, as, possibly, we all have, but then it would have been for revenge, it would have been my way of informing the world how awfully it made me suffer.
~ James Baldwin
I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank.
~ James Frey
I hate myself. I hate myself so much that I can't look myself in the eye. I hate myself so much that suicide seems like a reasonable option.
~ James Frey
Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.
~ Anthon St. Maarten
Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.
~ Munia Khan
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.
~ Albert Camus
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
~ Gustav Mahler
Nine Men in Ten are Suicides.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A man was found dead covered in sprinkles, strawberry sauce and a flake. Reports said he may have topped himself.
~ Frank Carson
No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott