Suicidal Quotes

• I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Hope

• Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?" Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla." - Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Girl
  • Mean
  • Son

• Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.

  

  Elsa Lanchester
  • Home
  • Comedian
  • Suicidal

• For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Death
  • Law
  • Die

• A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

  

  E. B. White
  • Up
  • Political
  • Suicide

• I was homeless when I was younger and I was suicidal when I was 21. Anything that has happened after that is like water off a duck's back.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Water
  • Homeless
  • Suicidal

• Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Death
  • House
  • Secret

• And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

  

  Don McLean
  • Life
  • World
  • Hope

• I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Why
  • Answer
  • Attack

• There is no madder nation than Japan. ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Country
  • Suicide
  • Suicidal

• Torture is abominable, things like ripping out someone's nails, or burning someone with a blowtorch. And those who practice it feel a certain power but it's suicidal. They will never get over what they've done. And it creates sadists.

  

  Saadi Yacef
  • Done
  • Power
  • Practice

• Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the too-strong love for his mother, the too-weak love for his suicidal father, and the all-consuming love of anonymous sexual encounters. Pointed and acute, this story tells of the narrator's many betrayals of others and their many betrayals of him. It exists in an uncomfortable moral space where the humor of terrible things sometimes outweighs, but never obscures, their poignancy.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Strong

• And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Suicide
  • Feet
  • Suicidal

• In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Different
  • Marketing
  • Advertising

• I'm not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways. You always think it's going to be fine, the body will repair itself. There will be another chance. But I'm 33 now. The body won't keep repairing itself. You know when you can flick a coin and catch it on your elbow, and flick it up and catch it on the back of your head? And then you can't even catch it with two hands any more. You realise something is wrong.

  

  Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles
  • Thinking
  • Chance
  • Horrible

• I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Suicide
  • Educated

• Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • House
  • Anger

• The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Home

• 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
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear
  • Conquest

• Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Luxury
  • Irresponsible
  • Suicidal

• The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of Buddhism to myself, that, if it weren't for certain qualifying clauses, the philosophy would be downright suicidal.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Reading
  • Philosophy
  • Suicidal

• There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die. I am dying.

  

  Brittany Maynard
  • Person
  • Dying
  • Suicidal

• Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
  • Punishment
  • Favour

• Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

  

  William D. Hoard
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Littles

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