Suicide Quotes
1724 quotes by 1041 authors
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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…
— Aristotle
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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…
— Antonin Artaud
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life…
— Emilie Autumn
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
— Honore de Balzac
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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
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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
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I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
— Travis Barker
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Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.
— Charles Barkley
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My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
— Roseanne Barr
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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
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
— Saul Bellow
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Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
— Robert Benchley
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
— Yogi Berra
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The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
— Theodor Adorno
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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
— Aesop
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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
— Erma Bombeck
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
— Mel Brooks
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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…
— James Buchan
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Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
— Julie Burchill
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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,…
— Octavia Butler
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