Suicide Quotes

• Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

  

  Franz Liszt
  • Life
  • Long
  • Faith

• As he saw it, there was only one choice - to be strong and upright, or to commit suicide.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Strong
  • Suicide

• 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

• You realize that suicide's a criminal offense - In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

  

  Peter Cook
  • Suicide

• I don't persuade to suicide.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Suicide
  • Persuade

• I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?

  

  Lisa See
  • Live
  • Children
  • Family

• What was right and true yesterday is wrong and false today. What was immoral and shameful — promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, suicide — has become progressive and praiseworthy. Nietzsche called it the transvaluation of all values; the old virtues become sins, and the old sins become virtues.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • True
  • Today
  • Suicide

• The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.

  

  Denise Mina
  • River
  • Suicide

• Imitation can be commercial suicide.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Design
  • Suicide
  • Imitation

• The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Live
  • Attention
  • Die

• We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.

  

  Rand Beers
  • May
  • Driving
  • Buildings

• Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Suicide
  • Dressing
  • Carelessness

• The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change. Popularities come and go. The tragedy of it is that somebody like Robin Williams should suffer from that, and be driven to commit suicide. If ever there was an untimely, unfair death, it was him.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Business
  • Career
  • Death

• A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Depressing
  • Spectacle
  • Committing

• My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • She
  • Remember
  • Mother

• His plan? To pass out weapons to slaves, so they could overthrow their masters. Suicide.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Suicide

• Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Road
  • Emotional
  • Suicide

• Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Suicide

• Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mind

• We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Moral
  • Choices
  • Suicide

• Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation and entreaty: 'If you are determined to commit suicide, why not come home and do so in a quiet lady-like manner?'

  

  Annie Smith Peck
  • Why
  • Home
  • Nervous

• late news was suicide of w:Jan Masaryk - In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and ideological 'Playboyery' had led him. I vividly remember visiting him in Washington, fat, slightly tight, coming into the room looking like a broken-down butler with his master, the little Communist, Clementis, [-] and saying in a loud voice -'Has anyone seen an Iron Curtain? I haven't.' Well, he has now.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Remember
  • Moral
  • Broken

• I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Band
  • Machines
  • Detroit

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