Suicide Quotes
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I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.
Buzz Aldrin -
A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
Arthur Hertzberg
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle -
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 -
The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
Rita Mae Brown -
There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing somebody for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
Bill Engvall -
Suicide is one concept I do not understand. To want to kill someone else, for a second, yes, but to want to kill oneself, never.
Agnes Moorehead -
There is no doubt that people are angry. When a family is hit by a bomb and I am the president here with the responsibility - when a suicide bomb takes places and murders the people of this nation - I am the president of this country and it is my responsibility to bring peace to these people.
Hamid Karzai
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No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
Sigmund Freud -
How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave.
William Cowper -
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.
Peter Lynch -
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 -
People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.
Brent Spiner -
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.
James Buchan
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We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.
Luke Richardson -
I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide - the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enough of a compensation to atone for its dominantly burthensome quality.
H. P. Lovecraft -
The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.
John Ashcroft -
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Suicide is not a remedy.
James A. Garfield -
The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.
William Styron
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Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
Saint Augustine -
The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue.
Mario Cuomo -
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.
Vic Fuentes