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Quotes About Suicide

If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.
~ Ray Bradbury
My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.
~ Amy Tan
We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really.
~ Morrissey
Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they'd had to share their rooms with others.
~ Orhan Pamuk
In a city where men are killing each other like animals just to make it a happier place, who has the right to stop me from killing myself?
~ Orhan Pamuk
Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something, said Kadife. Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Welcome to our border city, sir. But what are you here for?" Ka explained that he had come to cover the municipal elections and also perhaps to write about the suicide girls. "As in Batman, the stories about the suicide girls have been exaggerated," the journalist replied. "Let's go over to meet Kas?m Bey, the assistant chief of police. They should know you've arrived—just in case.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The first such suicide had come from the city of Batman, a hundred kilometers from Kars.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Trenutak samoubojstva za žene je trenutak kad su najusamljenije, i kad najbolje shva?aju što zna?i biti žena.
~ Orhan Pamuk
He was getting to the point that he didn't understand why tax attorneys didn't just kill themselves.
~ Orson Scott Card
Life is a suicide course, Miro. Check it out- basic philosophy course. You spend your life running out of fuel and when you're finally out, you croak.
~ Orson Scott Card
A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
~ Oscar Wilde
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
~ Oscar Wilde
Mercy is in the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There is mass hatred and there is mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Mercy is the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and there is mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What should give you pause is that suicides scales with intelligence in the animal kingdom and you might wonder if this is not true of individuals as well as species.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I actually liked the disolation of winter; it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide.
~ Dale Carnegie
And the Nation echoed and enforced this self-criticism, saying: Be content to be servants, and nothing more; what need of higher culture for half-men? Away with the black man's ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.
~ Walker Percy
Question: During the week following Pearl Harbor, the incidence of suicide declined dramatically across the nation. Was this decline a consequence of (1) A rise in patriotic fervor and a sense of purpose? (2) A new sense of interest (e.g., something, even war, is better than nothing. Peace in the 1930s was like nothing)?
~ Walker Percy
Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.
~ Charles J. Shields