“I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.” WarMatterMightDecidedAimNo Matter WhatMethodSuicideAddNuclearCommitEmergingRetributionNuclear WarUnleashingDetente Author:Leonid Brezhnev
“I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad but that I couldn't commit suicide and then try MIT afterwards. The two operations, suicide and going to MIT, don't commute.” IfsTryingTwoDecidedSuicideKillingCommitOperationsMitKilling Myself Author:Murray Gell-Mann
“When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.” WayGivingYearsAgeFeltParentBornCryArmsGiving UpDecidedAskingSuicideLegsGravesCommitWorriedMy FutureArms And LegsAsking WhyBorn This WayLoving Parents Author:Nick Vujicic
“I can't relate to the idea of suicide. I guess I'm just one of those people that is always optimistic and upbeat. But one day, I sat down. I said 'You know what? Just to kind of purge myself, I want to see what its like to feel that low'. So I decided to write a suicide note. Yeah, just to kinda flush it out there and put it on a page. And I started to do this, and I had an epiphany. I'll share this with you: a suicide note that is written by somebody that is not suicidal is called an autobiography. I am on Chapter 58.” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsWritingKindSaidI CanIdeasWrittenShareOne DayPagesLowsDecidedYeahSuicideNotesOptimisticRelateSatJust OneChaptersAutobiographySuicidalEpiphanyUpbeatSuicide Note Author:Dane Cook
“I look at the tattoo inside my left wrist. It's my brother's name, he committed suicide two years ago. Just before the second anniversary of his death, I tattooed his name. I miss him, of course, and I decided I would live for me, and for him.” YearsLooksTwoCoursesNamesLeftMissingBrotherYears AgoDecidedSuicideCommittedMy BrotherTwo YearsTattooWristsTattooedTwo Years Ago Author:Pom Klementieff
“This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page three hundred and eighty, when the moujik decided to commit suicide. . . . Cuthbert was an optimist at heart, and it seemed to him that, at the rate at which the inhabitants of that interesting country were murdering one another, the supply of Russian novelists must eventually give out.” GivingHeartCountryThreeInterestingStudyHappenedPagesHundredDecidedSuicideMiseryRateCommitNovelistsHopelessGrayOptimistEighty Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“There appear to be many people who chose to go crazy (or become alcoholics, addicts, criminals, suicides) rather than have to bear the pain and ambiguity of a life situation that they have decided that they cannot stand. (98)” PeoplePainSituationCrazyBearsDecidedSuicideCriminalsAddictAlcoholicsAmbiguity Author:Sheldon B. Kopp
“In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat that attempt until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition, i decided to test the only remedy i have come to have any faith in: awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she is perfectly healthy. She'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is.” PeopleHeartLightFormLyingViewsRiskConditionsAwarenessParticularHealthySucceedDecidedDoctorsTestsMiracleSuicideMajorityRepeatsEach DayRemedyDepartureInjectionVilletteAwareness Of Life Author:Paulo Coelho
“I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.” WayStillsScienceDecisionInterestingStudyPathDecidedAccountsSuicideIncludingFollowingRationalVarietyWhy NotProceduresPointlessHedonism Book:Life of a Scientist: An Autobiographical Account of the Development of Molecular Orbital Theory Source: Life of a Scientist: An Autobiographical Account of the Development of Molecular Orbital Theory
“Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not matter. If you have decided to commit suicide, does it matter how you do it?” IfsWantDoeMatterReligionDecidedSuicideCommitCavesDiscussingDoes It MatterAnti Religion Author:Javed Akhtar
“One girl, actually, in the UK — it was a really small show in Wales — a girl came up to me and said that because of one of my songs she was still alive. She’d decided not to commit suicide. It was a really emotional moment.” SaidStillsMomentsShowsSongGirlAliveEmotionalDecidedSuicideCommitWales Author:Lights
“No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.” MenWayDecisionDyingFrontsDecidedSuicideTrainDecision MakingPromiscuous Author:Amos Bronson Alcott
“I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.” ThinkingWayWantedDecidedSuicideCommittedConventionalExitConventional Ways Author:Eric Burdon
“We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate sense 'represent' the majority of the people. But, even if it did, even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority. No organicist metaphor, no irrelevant bromide that 'we are all part of one another,' must be permitted to obscure this basic fact.” PeopleIfsDoeStillsFactsGovernmentPercentDecidedMurderSuicideMajorityMetaphorMinoritiesAccurateObscureIrrelevant Author:Murray Rothbard
“Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.” MenGivingAliveDeterminationDecidedSuicideSatisfactionSurvivingStaying AliveWill To LiveAssorted Author:Brendan Behan