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I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens.

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• Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Suicide
  • Union
  • Oregon

• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Long
  • Humor
  • Suicide

• I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Think
  • Perfect

• My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Suicide

• When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Wife
  • Story
  • Wanted

• The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Life
  • Character
  • Feeling

• Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Suicide

• One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • You
  • Years
  • Suicide

• The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Alone
  • Suicide

• I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Believe
  • Die
  • Suicide

• Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Die

• For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

  

  James Buchan
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Suicide

• When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.

  

  Blake McIver Ewing
  • Music
  • Gay
  • Suicide

• 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
  • Different
  • Country
  • Future

• Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

  

  Pink
  • Different
  • Single
  • Cutting

• I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.

  

  Bill Skarsgard
  • Real
  • Fall
  • Ugly

• The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.

  

  Paul Watzlawick
  • Suicide

• You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Suicide
  • Shape
  • Olympic

• When people ask whether virtual reality will be a real thing or just the next 3D, what I always say is, 'Take a headset, walk outside, and the next person you meet, put it on them and see what the reaction is.'

  

  Chris Milk
  • People
  • Real
  • Reality

• We shall know that the Almost Perfect State is here when the kind of old age each person wants is possible to him. Of course, all of you may not want the kind we want . . . some of you may prefer prunes and morality to the bitter end.

  

  Don Marquis
  • May
  • Age
  • Perfect

• As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • My Life
  • Decided

• I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens.

  

  Rip Taylor
  • Suicide
  • Martha
  • Unplug