Suicide Quotes
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I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Cormac McCarthy -
Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
Bill Maher
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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
William James -
It is manifestly idiotic to believe that Israel, with five million Jewish citizens and one million Arab citizens, will concede to the return of four million refugees. It will not happen. We can wish it, we can think it's just, that it's moral - it will not happen. No country commits suicide.
Uri Avnery -
Maybe Kurt Cobain meant it to mention suicide in his lyrics; maybe he didn't. We're never going to know. When Andy Wood died, there were tons of lyrics that he wrote that sort of alluded to, well, it's possible that it's going to happen. It's not likely I'm going to kill myself, but those lyrics are still there.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.
J. D. Salinger -
I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.
Robert Wyatt -
I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
T. H. White
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It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.
George Carey -
The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.
Ban Ki-moon -
The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.
John Podhoretz -
Don't piss your life away with suicide...it's a bullshit way out.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.
Charles Barkley -
Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.
Antoinette Perry -
When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, 'What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act.' And they do calm down.
Emil Cioran -
I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other groups are more interested in symbolic terrorism, like what they did to the World Trade Center - suicide bombers or something that really has an effect and is meaningful to people.
Kevin Mitnick -
To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.
W. C. Sellar -
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
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Maybe if we can find time to hug and cherish our families and the people around us, child suicide or college suicide wouldn't be rampant.
Uwem Akpan -
Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.
Faith Sullivan -
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Bertrand Russell -
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.
Judy Collins