Suicide Quotes - page 22

Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete. (Kay Redfield Jamison)
Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74) View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
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. View quote
Joan Didion
Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Children being left, it's not always like books of Charles Dickens. When you lose your parents in childhood, it's a fact of life, and, you know, human beings are extraordinary powerful survivors. My mother commit suicide. I was lucky it was not in front of me. O.K.? Which is truth, and Father was confused, and we never had any relationship, serious relationship. I never knew my father, in a way. But what? It's made me different? No, I mean. I blame for every fuckups in my life my parents? No. [Pause] I got lucky. I fell in love with dance. View quote
Mikhail Baryshnikov
De Soya blinks. "Suicide is a mortal sin,” he says. On the screen the girl nods seriously. "Yes,” she says, "but I am not a Christian. Also, I'd rather go to hell than go with you.”. View quote
Dan Simmons
The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian. (Laurell K. Hamilton)
So she drank to the point of suicide, because a life which not only lacked love, but couldn't even catch a little indifference, like a net to contain air, was intolerable; because she hadn't a single god, or goddamn thing to do, or anything she could look back on as done-completed or accomplished-only one pleasureless screw which produced an ingrate and a monster upon whom she nevertheless pinned her hopes with exactly the same chance for success as anyone would who tried to drive a nail into a passing cloud-a son to whom she threw her soul at considerable peril, like a stone in a paper boat. View quote
William H. Gass
Terror always has its roots in hysteria and psychotic insecurity; still, we should know our enemy. The firefighters were not afraid to die for an idea. But the suicide killers belong in a different psychic category, and their battle effectiveness has, on our side, no equivalent. Clearly, they have contempt for life. Equally clearly, they have contempt for death. Their aim was to torture tens of thousands, and to terrify hundreds of millions. In this, they have succeeded. View quote
Martin Amis
Many people think that conservation is just about saving fluffy animals – what they don't realise is that we're trying to prevent the human race from committing suicide ... We have declared war on the biological world, the world that supports us ... At the moment the human race is in the position of a man sawing off the tree branch he is sitting on. View quote
Gerald Durrell
The expression can be traced to the Third Centennial Apert, when the gates of several Hundreder maths opened to reveal startling outcomes, e. g.: at Saunt Rambalf's, a mass suicide that had taken place only moments earlier. At Saunt Terramore's, nothing at all - not even human remains. At Saunt Byadin's, a previously unheard-of religious sect.... At Saunt Lesper's, no humans, but a previously undiscovered species of tree-dwelling higher primates. View quote
Neal Stephenson
Terror breeds terror. I am completely opposed to both state terror and those who respond in a similar way. There is no justification for any group that associates itself with the Left to kill innocents and encourage suicide bombings. View quote
Tariq Ali
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention. View quote
Malcolm Fraser
Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later. . . View quote
Walter Lippmann
That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it. View quote
Anderson Cooper
I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave. View quote
Spalding Gray
You look like the type of people who would criticize a misspelling in a suicide note. (Tucker Max)
As a famous Arnold Toynbee quote puts it, "Civilizations die from suicide, not murder", as can be seen throughout much of the Western world right now. The progressive agenda - lavish social welfare, abortion, agnosticism, multiculturalism - is collectively the real suicide bomb. View quote
Mark Steyn
The only moral question with suicide bombing is who the target is. And in that sense, the suicide bomber is no different from the stealth bomber or the cruise missile. If it is targeted at civilian people, then it is morally wrong, whether done by Bush, Blair, or a suicide bomber. View quote
George Galloway
We're told that the Arabs loathe us. Really? For liberating the Iraqis? For subsidising the lifestyles of people in Egypt and Jordan, to name but two, for giving them vast amounts of aid? For providing them with science, medicine, technology and all the other benefits of the West? They [Arabs] should go down on their knees and thank God for the munificence of the United States. What do they think we feel about them? That we adore them for the way they murdered more than 3,000 civilians on September 11 and then danced in the hot, dusty streets to celebrate the murders? That we admire them for the cold-blooded killings in Mombasa, Yemen and elsewhere? That we admire them for being suicide bombers, limb-amputators, women repressors? View quote
Robert Kilroy-Silk
Drunkeness is temporary suicide the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. View quote
Bertrand Russell