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Suicide Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison
- Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of…
- I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.
- Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine…
- Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.
- Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the…
- Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It…
- Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad…
- The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive…
- It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web…
- When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain.…
- Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy
- Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science,…
- Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)
- Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes
More Suicide Quotes
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- There is something great and terrible about suicide. — Honore de Balzac
- Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical… — Honore de Balzac
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams
- I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. — Travis Barker
- Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide. — Charles Barkley
- My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact. — Roseanne Barr
- Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams
- She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. — Saul Bellow
- Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous. — Robert Benchley