Suicide Quotes

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

Antonin Artaud

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Phil Donahue

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

One shouldn't commit suicide out of fear of death.

Unknown

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

Aristotle

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

Havelock Ellis

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Cesare Pavese

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

Max Lerner

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Eleanor Roosevelt

As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident.

Peter Greene

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

Claire Forlani

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

Julie Burchill

Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is morally desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere

Thomas S. Szasz

The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night

Friedrich Nietzsche

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over

Ernest Hemingway

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Benjamin Franklin

To make yourself something less than you can be - that too is a form of suicide

Benjamin Lichtenberg

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

Albert Camus

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.