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Quotes About Suicide

If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.
~ John Cleese
How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit a suicide?
~ Judy Tenuta
Lemmings with suicide vests. It's kind of an insult to lemmings to call them lemmings, so they'd have to be more than just a lemming, because jumping to your death is not enough.
~ Devin Nunes
There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
~ Bill Engvall
Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.
~ Richard Winters
My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
~ Alex Campbell
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
~ Jack Kerouac
Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
~ Unknown
The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
~ Sylvia Plath
Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.
~ Henri Barbusse
Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.
~ Peter D. Kramer
A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!
~ Arthur Miller
No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
~ Unknown
Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.
~ Salman Rushdie
Suicide is very contagious.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
if there weren't war, lunacy, perversity, sickness, imbecility, suicide, and death, chances were he'd be in a lot better shape.
~ Philip Roth
First you make a farce of suicide, now again you make a farce of life." "I don't know any other way to do it, Mother. Leave me be. Shut up. You don't exist. There are no ghosts." "Wrong. There are only ghosts.
~ Philip Roth
What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?
~ Rachel Cohn
Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn --or answer the call of Death's dark horn. Without a gleaning of purpose in life, we have no vision, we live in strife, --or let blood fall on a suicide knife.
~ Dean Koontz
How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?
~ Unknown
There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide.
~ Denis Johnson
Self-destruction by hanging is almost always an act of protest, a desire to shock and hurt someone. Therefore, believers in euthanasia avoid it. Even if the job of cutting down the body is left to the police or paramedics, this is an unacceptably selfish way to die, and I have never heard of a euthanasia supporter using it. Unless the neck is broken by the rope jerking the fall to a stop (as a professional hangman arranges), then it is death by strangulation, often not so quick.
~ Derek Humphry
A slight deviation of the gun barrel and the bullet misses vital organs but inflicts terrible wounds. Reports in newspapers and journals indicate that the preferred method is to put the gun into the mouth and shoot upward, but even here there have sometimes been survivors.
~ Derek Humphry
Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.
~ Jack Kevorkian