Suicide Quotes - page 2

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. (Arnold J. Toynbee)
I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away. View quote
Emil Cioran
Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves. View quote
Gerard Way
Because the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. View quote
Franz Liszt
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work. View quote
Thomas Bernhard
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. View quote
Martin Heidegger
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. (Peter McWilliams)
It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. View quote
Saul Bellow
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. View quote
Charles Cooley
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. View quote
Travis Barker
I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment. View quote
Alan Vega
But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that. View quote
Alan Vega
Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers. (Chris Chocola)
Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been. View quote
Claire Forlani
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. View quote
George Carey
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation. View quote
Keith Henson
Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat. View quote
Lexa Doig