Quotes About Suicide

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

they may pontificate that the suicide attempt was merely a ploy to gain attention or to manipulate others. No matter what may have motivated a suicide attempt, the family has just experienced the terrifying possibility that their loved one might have died. Trivializing a suicide attempt invalidates a family's grief and despair. They may bury their feelings of grief and loss inside themselves or may convert their feelings into secondary emotions such as anger or fear.

The fact that, within ten years, I lost one world, and after a time rose again, as it were, from spiritual death to find another, seems to me one of the strongest arguments against suicide that life can provide. There may not be - I believe that there is not - resurrection after death, but nothing could prove more conclusively than my own brief but eventful history the fact that resurrection is possible within our limited span of earthly time.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Le suicide n'est qu'une solution individuelle; pas socialiste par conséquent.

Suicide is often an act of vitality, and even — if it is not the result of neurosis — the act of a person who is powerfully attached to life.

I've even heard of a guy whose chronic migraine was cured by a bullet to the head. The craziest part of it was that he had actually set out to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head because of the headaches which had persistently refused to yield to treatment

If you attack the Clintons publicly, make sure all your friends know that you are not planning suicide, that you're not careless when you drive a car.

We don't judge people for dying in car crashes. But we do judge people when they die of suicide.

If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I'm not suicidal. And I'm a pretty good driver.

Mirar el cielo, ahí pasan las nubes, y pensar: "No, nunca voy a suicidarme"

martyrdom is not only not the same as suicide, it is the polar opposite of suicide, since the suicide loves nothing in life enough to keep living, while the martyr loves something so much that he gives up everything for it, even life. The suicide sees less value and meaning in life than anyone else, while the martyr sees more.

Sometimes Barry plays the most depressing things." "Joy Division," said Banks. "He committed suicide. The lead singer." "I'm not bloody surprised. I'd commit suicide if I sounded like him.

Legal, regulated voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide have far less potential for abuse, and when they are available, there is no need to make it easy for people to find out how to kill themselves.

I think, Dr. Stone said, that when you tried to kill yourself you got in touch with reality for the first time.

If you intend to kill yourself you don't require a reason, in the usual sense of the term; just as, to contrary, when you intend to stay alive, no verbal, articulated, formal reason is necessary, one you can seize on if the issue comes up.

O pior aspecto do suicídio é que você decide fazer isso e não dá para desistir e mudar de ideia. Como essas pessoas que tentam se matar com o escapamento do carro e viram um vegetal. Alguém as tira de lá e as salva, mas elas destruíram todos os neurônios por causa do monóxido de carbono.

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged—where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

gothblood4567: 'sup? finalwill: i'm working. gothblood4567 on what? finalwill: my suicide note. i can't figure out how to end it. gothblood4567: lol

did anyone ever use a semi-colon in a suicide note?).

I don't know that it had anything to do with us," my father said. But how could it have not? Doesn't the blood of every suicide splash back on our faces?

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

When it's my turn, I'll open my mouth, unable to speak, and feel a little tap on my wrist. Time to stand up, my watch will whisper. Then, before killing myself, I'll say one last time, "I am standing up.