Suicide Quotes - page 6

The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why? (Abraham Verghese)
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it. View quote
Ryan Gosling
Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames. View quote
Rick Riordan
Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available - those that are easy and quick. View quote
Scott Anderson
Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. "How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again? View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fine. Let's begin with something even you can't screw up.” – Death "Way to build up my crappy confidence there. You should volunteer for the suicide hotline.” – Nick "What makes you think I don't?” – Death. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in. View quote
Brandon Mull
It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money. View quote
Vanilla Ice
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost. View quote
Osamu Dazai
Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are the very same folks who won't even remember you a week after you're gone, while the people you want to spare most -- the people who love you -- are the ones who will have to live with the pain of your suicide for the rest of their lives. View quote
David J. Lieberman
We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it-that makes no sense. What mycould never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
that since Cecilia's suicide, the Lisbons could hardly wait for night to forget themselves in sleep. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay. View quote
George Weinberg
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. View quote
Arthur Hertzberg
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight. View quote
Paul Watzlawick
I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable. View quote
Judy Collins
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. View quote
Karl Menninger
I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am. View quote
Amy Sedaris
A murderer is only an extroverted suicide. (Graham Chapman)
The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon. View quote
Edward Gorey
Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally. View quote
Anne Stevenson
Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too. View quote
Antoinette Perry
I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers. View quote
Barbara Lee