Suicide Quotes

‘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

‘Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.’ – Phil Donahue

‘Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.” – Bill Maher

‘If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘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.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it’s bad, it’s really simple.’ – Damien Hirst

‘To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.’ – Aristotle

‘When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.’ – Edward Dahlberg

‘Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.’ – Henri Barbusse

‘Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘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.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.’ – Arnold J. Toynbee

‘No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.’ – Cesare Pavese

‘If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.’ – John Adams

‘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.’ – Ryan Gosling

‘There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.’ – Albert Camus

‘The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.’ – Theodor W. Adorno

‘There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.’ – Daniel Webster

‘Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.’ – Karl A. Menninger

‘Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.’ – Franz Liszt

‘He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.’ – Woody Allen

‘Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.’ – Gore Vidal

‘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.’ – Gerard Way

‘When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.’ – Victor Hugo

‘The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.’ – Emil Cioran

‘Drunkenness is temporary suicide.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘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.’ – Robert Crumb

‘A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for! – Arthur Miller’ – Arthur Miller

‘Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.’ – Al Green

‘No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.’ – Robert Byrne

‘Online I see people committing ‘social media suicide’ all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you’re never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don’t warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.’ – Tim Ferriss

‘There is something great and terrible about suicide.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.’ – Luke Richardson

‘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.’ – Judy Collins

‘I just couldn’t go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland’s suicide. I didn’t see how we could make the show light and funny any more.’ – Judd Nelson

‘Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don’t know a single person who doesn’t know at least two of these victims personally.’ – Pink

‘Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn’t been.’ – Claire Forlani

‘Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I’d become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.’ – Byron Katie

‘Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?’ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

‘Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Suicide is not a remedy.’ – James A. Garfield

‘Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?’ – Jean Genet

‘If you don’t do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.’ – Josef Albers

‘My husband and I didn’t sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.’ – Roseanne Barr

‘The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.’ – Walter Benjamin

‘Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we’ll get somewhere.’ – Peter Lynch

‘If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.’ – Fran Lebowitz

‘Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.’ – Emile Durkheim

‘Far from definitively resolving the assisted suicide issue, the court’s decisions seem to assure that the debate over assisted suicide and euthanasia is not yet over – and may have only begun.’ – Neil Gorsuch

‘Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.’ – Martin Heidegger

‘One of my favorite movies of all time is ‘It’s A Wonderful Life,’ which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it’s about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.’ – Frank Darabont

‘Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It’s literary suicide.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other groups are more interested in symbolic terrorism, like what they did to the World Trade Center – suicide bombers or something that really has an effect and is meaningful to people.’ – Kevin Mitnick

‘Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated – preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.’ – Thomas Sowell

‘Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.’ – Henry Adams

‘Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.’ – Jack Nicholson

‘The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don’t know how another person experiences pain – physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it ‘weariness of life.” – Miriam Toews

‘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.’ – Anderson Cooper

‘Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They’re one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.’ – Steve Albini

‘Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.’ – John Adams

‘Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.’ – Ezekiel Emanuel

‘Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.’ – Lexa Doig

‘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.’ – Scott Anderson

‘I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.’ – Damien Hirst

‘Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.’ – Friedrich List

‘I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.’ – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

‘There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.’ – Lafcadio Hearn

‘I don’t persuade to suicide.’ – Jack Kevorkian

‘Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They’re playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They’re just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It’s an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That’s what we’re up against in Iraq. We’re up against a suicide supply chain.’ – Thomas Friedman

‘I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.’ – Joshua Logan

‘In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.’ – Chuck Grassley

‘I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.’ – Ezra Pound

‘The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.’ – Dick Cavett

‘Let teens know that suicide is almost always the result of a complex mix of factors rather than a single event such as a breakup or bullying. It can be related to a sometimes undiagnosed mental disorder such as depression.’ – Jennifer Ashton

”Birdman’ is basically ‘All About Eve’ – the 1950 comedy about rehearsal rivalries in a Broadway show, and another Best Picture laureate – reimagined as a Batman suicide mission. The movie couldn’t be actor-ier.’ – Richard Corliss

‘Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.’ – Ezekiel Emanuel

‘Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.’ – Reza Aslan

‘They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?’ – Adrienne Rich

‘On ‘Phoenix,’ I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It’s called ‘Phoenix’ because it’s talking about dying – but when a phoenix dies, it’s reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.’ – Charles Horton Cooley

‘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.’ – Arthur Hertzberg

‘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.’ – Ursula K. Le Guin

‘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.’ – Harry S Truman

‘Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they’re desolate.’ – Vincent Nichols

‘Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.’ – Ezekiel Emanuel

‘The great thing about suicide is that it’s not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.’ – Harvey Fierstein

‘Suicide doesn’t solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.’ – Sinead O’Connor

‘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

‘The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue.’ – Mario Cuomo

‘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

‘You can’t enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.’ – Paul Stanley

‘Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.’ – Karl A. Menninger

‘For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society’s method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.’ – Judy Collins

‘I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That’s what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.’ – Sonny Rollins

‘Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?’ – Honore de Balzac

‘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.’ – Antonin Artaud

‘My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.’ – Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.’ – Susan Sontag

‘In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.’ – Thornton Wilder

‘I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘Political courage is not political suicide.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘It’s a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.’ – Craig Bruce

‘It wasn’t until ’94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn’t about the money.’ – Vanilla Ice

‘The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘I don’t think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.’ – Eric Burdon

‘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.’ – Spalding Gray

‘I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.’ – Everett Dirksen

‘You know when I really realized like ‘wow’ what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide.’ – Charles King

‘People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it’s really just the opposite.’ – Brent Spiner

‘I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.’ – Richard Russo

‘The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.’ – Jerry Costello

‘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.’ – Antoinette Perry

‘The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.’ – Paul Watzlawick

‘The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.’ – Paul Watzlawick

‘There aren’t many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory – it’d be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it’s strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places.’ – Sean Booth

‘We’re seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.’ – Rand Beers

‘In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.’ – Jim Gerlach

‘Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That’s applicable to any kind of depression.’ – Judy Collins

‘I have friends who’ve tried suicide many times and haven’t succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.’ – Judy Collins

‘We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.’ – Bruce Sterling

‘Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.’ – Chris Chocola

‘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.’ – Anne Stevenson

‘Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.’ – Maggie Gallagher

‘No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.’ – Maggie Gallagher

‘I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.’ – Rosanne Cash

‘My mother’s suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn’t even remember later on.’ – Lorna Luft

‘I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart’s on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens.’ – Rip Taylor

‘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.’ – George Weinberg

‘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.’ – Malcolm Fraser

‘A lot of people told me that I’m committing musical suicide with my sound.’ – Kid Rock

‘I lost two of the greatest men I’ve ever known to assassination – and a son to suicide.’ – Pierre Salinger

‘Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.’ – Laurence Housman

‘What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.’ – Zane Grey

‘The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.’ – John Ashcroft

‘I thought: This is not racing, it’s a suicide mission.’ – Barry Sheene

‘Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn’t had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.’ – Octavia E. Butler

‘I have a suicide impulse.’ – Hal Holbrook

‘Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.’ – Silvan Shalom

‘We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can’t continue like that.’ – Silvan Shalom

‘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.’ – Keith Henson

‘But of course it’s always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can’t ever get rid of that.’ – Alan Vega

‘I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.’ – Alan Vega

‘How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It’s like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!’ – Oriana Fallaci

‘I saw Suicide in ’74 and it was pretty horrifying.’ – Robert Quine

‘The best I can say is that it’s better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It’s better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.’ – Paul Westerberg

‘I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.’ – Travis Barker

‘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.’ – George Carey

‘It could be my downfall, but I don’t think it is – Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it’s suicide.’ – Charlie Hunnam

‘Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don’t look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide.’ – Lynette Fromme

‘In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.’ – Gary Cherone

‘A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.’ – Max Lerner

‘She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.’ – Saul Bellow

‘It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.’ – Clare Boothe Luce

‘Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.’ – Saddam Hussein

‘The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it’s always been.’ – Randall Terry

‘Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth… suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.’ – Julie Burchill

‘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.’ – A. B. Yehoshua

‘Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.’ – Ezra Pound

‘As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.’ – Martin Van Creveld

‘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.’ – F. H. Bradley

‘Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.’ – Marilyn Hacker

‘I’m convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.’ – David Satcher

‘Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.’ – Hun Sen

‘On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, ‘You have the right to remain silent.” – Mitt Romney

‘When someone isn’t ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they’re gay and it’s horrible.’ – Ricky Martin

‘Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.’ – Marc Andreessen

‘We decided to speak publicly about suicide because we wanted to make a difference in other people’s lives.’ – Luke Richardson

‘Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there’s nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.’ – Jodi Picoult

‘I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.’ – Brittany Snow

‘I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I’ve got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it – they say: ‘I like that, and that’s not this.” – Adam Ant

‘I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy.’ – Allen West

‘Men and women who have served in harm’s way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.’ – Ron Wyden

‘I’m always looking for something that’s real and that’s got meat on it. I think it’s artistic suicide if you’re too vain, or if you’re afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.’ – Bill Skarsgard

‘Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.’ – James Buchan

‘For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.’ – James Buchan

‘The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.’ – Pauline Neville-Jones

‘We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.’ – Pauline Neville-Jones

‘When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.’ – Gary Allan

‘The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.’ – John Podhoretz

‘I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.’ – Barbara Lee

‘The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.’ – Ayelet Waldman

‘I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.’ – Ayelet Waldman

‘The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.’ – Denise Mina

‘I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that there’s no such thing as evil; it’s all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he’s a hero.’ – Eli Roth

‘As a young physician in the mid-’80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.’ – Abraham Verghese

‘I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.’ – Larry Kramer

‘I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.’ – Simon Hoggart

‘It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition would be levied and tenure denied. I’ve seen this first-hand.’ – Tony Judt

‘If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that’s their problem. But there’s no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook – or accept its inhumane consequences.’ – Nancy Pearcey

‘When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred… I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.’ – Paul Engle

‘By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.’ – Ezekiel Emanuel

‘Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.’ – Mark McKinnon

‘I think my music’s more disturbing than Tupac’s – or at least I thought some of the themes of ‘The Downward Spiral’ were more disturbing on a deeper level – you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else.’ – Trent Reznor

‘I’m a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain’t never been an MC, who ain’t never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that’s MC suicide.’ – John Cena

‘One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, ‘suicide counseling.” – Rafael Cruz

‘The suicide bomber’s imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people’s lives.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don’t ever say ‘Stephen Baldwin’ and ‘ministry’ in the same sentence. I make movies, and in Hollywood, that’s career suicide.’ – Stephen Baldwin

‘I don’t believe Iran is a suicide state.’ – John Abizaid

‘I’ve always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.’ – Oriana Fallaci

‘We’re not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can’t even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.’ – Alex Steffen

‘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.’ – Joan Didion

‘You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.’ – Ellen Willis

‘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.’ – George Galloway

‘When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she’s not what she used to be. I’ve been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.’ – Lykke Li

‘Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed ‘evils’ of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.’ – Susan Estrich

‘I can’t understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn’t, at least it isn’t any worse.’ – Rod McKuen

‘For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality – the changing of the seasons – that’s what I deeply loved.’ – Joel Sternfeld

‘Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, ‘Hey, there’s this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.’ And they would be like, ‘Please don’t ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.” – Graham Moore

‘We always knew that we didn’t want to show Alan Turing in the act of suicide – it was our feeling that would tip over into melodrama too quickly and seem over-the-top.’ – Graham Moore

‘While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants or in other innocent ways, mine was contracted during my college years, when I showed as much care for my personal health as your average suicide bomber.’ – Gene Weingarten

‘People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide.’ – Travis Bradberry

‘In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So ‘Suicide Squad’ is just like, wow, so damn awesome.’ – Harley Quinn Smith

‘I try to put myself in others’ shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don’t think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide.’ – Benigno Aquino III

‘When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the ’50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character’s committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or ‘turning’ heterosexual.’ – Nancy Garden

‘We need to look at how we can better fortify our force protection at military installations. But also, how can we deal with these mental health issues with our returning veterans? And our suicide rate in the military is twice as high as the average population.’ – Michael McCaul

‘Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group.’ – Lydia Millet

‘American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education.’ – Neil Gorsuch

‘Why commit technological suicide by restricting the flow of talent into the United States?’ – Michio Kaku

‘Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.’ – Pat Buchanan

‘The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide.’ – Clive Barker

‘Every movie that I’ve picked, from my first film on, has been considered by everyone to be ‘career suicide.’ And I have an amazing life. I have an amazing career. I work with artists. But I’m not making ‘Spider-Man.” – Michael Pitt

‘I’ve been working for a while with a Scottish suicide prevention charity called The Joshua Nolan Foundation that brings the conversation about mental health into schools and provides free counseling for those who need it.’ – Pollyanna McIntosh

‘When suicide hit my family, we learned first-hand that no one is immune from what is now the 10th leading cause of death in the US.’ – Jennifer Ashton

‘But for me, a physician, chief medical correspondent for a major network, and women’s health expert, the thought of exposing myself to millions of people as someone who’d been completely blindsided by the suicide of my children’s father, and by the impact of that suicide on Alex and Chloe and me, was nothing short of terrifying.’ – Jennifer Ashton

‘Rationally, I knew these fears were ridiculous. There were no signs, unfortunately, and I would never blame anyone for another person’s suicide. But if everyone felt that way, there wouldn’t be this cruel stigma, would there?’ – Jennifer Ashton

‘I have a history with domestic violence myself. I have toddlers in my home, and I’m a gun owner. And, as a veteran, I’m a member of a community that has a very high suicide rate. So all of those things have touched my life.’ – MJ Hegar