Best Suicide Quotes
1724 Suicide quotes by 951 unique authors
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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
— Emile M. Cioran
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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
— Woody Allen
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He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.
— Woody Allen
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Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds…
— Tori Amos
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The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a…
— George Carlin
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Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot…
— Carl Sagan
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How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
— Norman Mailer
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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
— William James
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Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.
— Khalil Gibran
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Suicide kills two people.
— Arthur Miller
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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is…
— Jonathan Kozol
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I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace…
— Cordell Hull
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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,…
— Emile Durkheim
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
— Ezra Pound
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You…
— Cesare Pavese
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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…
— F. H. Bradley
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.
— Stephen King
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But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.
— Mark Twain
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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are…
— Mark Twain
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general…
— Emile Durkheim
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Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything about it. Was…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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