S Quotes
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“Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'”
“Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.”
“Suicide is murder of self, and murder is sin.”
Source: Conversations With Nicole
“Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.”
Source: Tom Stoppard: Plays
“Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy”
“Suicide is not a remedy”
“Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.”
“Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.”
“Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.”
Source: The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series
“Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.”
Source: Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals
“Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.”
“Suicide is such an epidemic in the USA that they now have their own emergency phone number: 988.”
“Suicide is the #1 killer of a person who is in a boat and happens to be passing under a bridge at the wrong time.”
Source: This Is a Book
“Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are the very same folks who won't even remember you a week after you're gone, while the people you want to spare most -- the people who love you -- are the ones who will have to live with the pain of your suicide for the rest of their lives.”
“Suicide is the last attempt of re-emergence of the will of life. - On Suicide”
“Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in one’s neighbor, in the existence of one’s neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves.”
“Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.”
Source: A Taste for Death
“Suicide is the only way out.”
“Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers”
Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
“Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.”
“suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.”
“Suicide is the utmost sincere and candid apology to the ones you hurt most”
“Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.”
“SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose; when, where and how to die.”
“SUICIDE...
Is to have the freedom to choose; when, where and how to die.
― John Zea”
“Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard.... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.”
“Suicide is very contagious.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.”
Source: Other people: a mystery story
“Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.”
“Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.”
“Suicide Islands: The higher the island is, the higher its suicide rate appears to be.”
“Suicide isn't always mean to kill yourself. Sometimes, it means to ruin yourself.”
“Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what is cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.”
“Suicide isn’t surrender; it’s the outcome of a relentless internal war that many wage silently. Let’s show compassion and support to those in this invisible battle. We don’t kill ourselves, we’re simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive.”
“Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.”
“Suicide kills two people.”
“Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.”
Source: The Ghost
“Suicide makes me feel dead inside.”
“Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“Suicide may be a choice, but not as much as it is expected when everything else fails.”
Source: Overcoming Depression: Pragmatic Solutions to Deal with Suicidal Thoughts
“Suicide note. "To my friends. My work is done why wait?"”
“Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes”
“Suicide occurs when the struggle of life exceeds the fear of death.”
“Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.”
“Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rates suggests that the opposite is true. In some cases, suicide risk skyrockets once treatment begins (the patient may feel not only penalized for a justifiable reaction, but permanently stigmatized as malfunctioning). Studies show that self-loathing sharply decreases only in the course of cognitive-behavioral treatment.”
Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide
“Suicide seemed to me the greatest kind of freedom, a release from everything, from a life that had been ruined a long time ago.”
Source: 3,096 Days
“Suicide solves midlife crises.”
Source: Cartoonist's Book Camp
“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.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Suicide terrorism stops when we stop intervening abroad.”
“Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad social support within the national communities from which they recruit, because they are seen as pursuing legitimate nationalist goals, especially liberation from foreign occupation.”