Suicide Quotes

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. (Otto von Bismarck)
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." View quote
Bill Maher
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. View quote
Daniel Webster
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. View quote
Phil Donahue
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. View quote
Antonin Artaud
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. View quote
Emil Cioran
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. View quote
Cesare Pavese
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. (Ernest Hemingway)
Drunkenness is temporary suicide. View quote
Bertrand Russell
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. View quote
Robert Crumb
It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason. View quote
Clare Boothe Luce
There is something great and terrible about suicide. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction. View quote
Al Green
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. View quote
Harry S. Truman
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature. View quote
Graham Greene
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. (Edward Dahlberg)
I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it. View quote
George Carlin
A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound. View quote
Kid Rock
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. View quote
Gore Vidal
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft