Suicide Quotes

"Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit.""
-Bill Maher

"'She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.'"
-Kate Chopin

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."
-Phil Donahue

"Suicide is the remedy of pain."
-Matt Hartman

"(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN MYLEATHER JACKET,JEANS AND MOTORCYCLE BOOTSGOODBYE."
-Sid Vicious

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
-Ben Okri

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one."
-Robert Byrne

"Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide."
-Woodrow Wilson

"That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise."
-Randy K. Milholland

"There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is suicide."
-Albert Camus

"Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed."
-Thomas H. Huxley

"A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand that he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides."
-Ayn Rand

"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."
-Gore Vidal

"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
-John Adams

"The initial evidence we have gathered from the site of blast suggested that it was a suicide attack because there was no crater found."
-Jehangir Mirza

"We learned at the time that all of the others have been caught or committed suicide. Brenda's is the only domestic violence (murder) that hasn't been solved."
-Shelby Steen's

"Another year in Ottawa would be suicide and my feeling is everyone there is ready to bail out. Ottawa has proven it is not the right city."
-Bruce Urban

"I got very depressed at one stage. ... When you're really depressed you think of suicide but there aren't any means of doing it."
-Norman Kember

"The risk of a serious suicide attempt in people who start taking antidepressant medication is, fortunately, quite low — less than one in 1,000. The risk actually goes down after people start antidepressant medication."
-Dr. Greg Simon

"In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor."
-Michelle Malkin

"Kids are facing problems earlier. Teen problems run the gamut: problems with friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, to suicide and abortion."
-Matt Robinson

"I attempted to commit suicide after I found out I was pregnant."
-Mindy Mccready

"To identify the type of explosive that's been used and to try and quickly identify particularly whether they're suicide vests, the origin of those vests, the type of material that's been used in the bomb to try and determine the origins of that and how widely available that is."
-Mick Keelty

"When you have teachers being beheaded and schools being closed in parts of the country, when you have suicide bombers killing Afghan civilians and Canadian diplomats, that is a very disturbing trend."
-Richard Norland

"Initially the partner is at increased risk from heart attack, suicide, and accidents. I am shocked my wife is sick and I stop paying attention when driving. And there is an increase in infections."
-Dr. Nicholas Christakis