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Quotes About Suicide

Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.
~ Pierre Salinger
But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.
~ Robert Blair
Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.
~ Chelsea Manning
I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living? Should I blast myself?
~ Tupac Shakur
I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
~ Spalding Gray
There seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people.
~ Germany Kent
It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.
~ Svetlana Alliluyeva
I barely took a moment to appreciate nature. Come to think of it, theonly time I did it was when I was so upset I wanted to commit suicide in theHuang Pu river.
~ Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
~ Martin Heidegger
Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep.
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
~ John Fowles, The Magus
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
The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result
~ Émile Durkheim
To live with fake positive thoughts is suicide, but living with negative all your life is just preparing the trigger for to get shoot!
~ Deyth Banger
Yes," Mom said. "People may want to kill themselves. But no one wants to be depressed, or in pain, or lonely, or hurt.
~ Will Schwalbe
The perfect man of action, is the suicide.
~ William Carlos Williams
Not long after his return to England, on 22 November 1774, at the age of only forty-nine, Robert Clive committed suicide in his townhouse in Berkeley Square.
~ William Dalrymple
In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet.
~ William L. Shirer
In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on an uninhabited planet.
~ William L. Shirer
Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.
~ William McKeen
On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?" "Still the controversial Hungarian breast-cancer radioactive seed implant treatment thing. I adore you." " Je t'adore aussi . Call me. Bye." "Bye.
~ David Cronenberg
from Uppsala, a Swedish city that doesn't interest many people. Even the inhabitants of Uppsala* themselves are embarrassed; the name of their city sounds almost like an excuse. Sweden has the highest suicide rate in the world.
~ David Foenkinos