Best Suicide Quotations
1724 Suicide quotes by 951 unique authors
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Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.
— Gerald Durrell
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Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat…
— Richard Bach
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.
— Samuel Adams
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Skepticism is slow suicide.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him…
— Lupe Velez
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Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so much happier without me. I…
— Kurt Cobain
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I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
— Immanuel Kant
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Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe…
— Henry David Thoreau
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. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of…
— Franz Kafka
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
— Bertrand Russell
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Goodbye, everybody! (Suicide note)
— Hart Crane
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I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
— Jack Kerouac
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
— Pliny the Elder
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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their…
— Cesare Pavese
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
— Havelock Ellis
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Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
— Henri Barbusse
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They really are bad shots.
— Charles de Gaulle
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I told you I was sick.
— Spike Milligan
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I've played everything but the harp.
— Lionel Barrymore
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Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.
— Unknown Author
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She sleeps alone at last.
— Robert Benchley
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I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.
— Woody Allen
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