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Quotes About Suicide

Suicide - " jumps off his ego onto his IQ
~ David Grossman
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds ... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?
~ David Hume
Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.
~ David Kyuman Kim
To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.
~ Anais Nin
ObamaCare is not a 'trainwreck,' it is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate, so we agree under duress to accept big government.
~ Wayne Allyn Root
For a government of any party, and for every one of us, even one suicide is worrisome.
~ Narendra Modi
My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
~ Bertrand Russell
I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.
~ Annie E. Clark
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
~ Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo
I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.
~ John Waters
I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.
~ David Satcher
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
Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.
~ Gerard Way
I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I don't know how it would affect global warming or penguins in Antarctica. But it might help me.
~ Noah Cicero
I've got a long history of suicid in my family; the good news is it skips a generation, so, if I'm lucky, my kids will kill themselves.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.
~ Gertrude Himmelfarb
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
~ Martin Van Creveld
I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.
~ Gordon Strachan
As long as children are still getting kicked out of their homes by parents, getting bullied, commuting suicide, et cetera. it's definitely still worth talking about.
~ Rayvon Owen
But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.
~ Huey Newton
Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
~ Dr. Karl Menninger
The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark...'
~ Rodney Dangerfield