(524 quotes found)
“So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.”
Damien Hirst
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.”
Phil Donahue
“She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand”
Saul Bellow
“Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“Would you consider me as an alternative to suicide?”
The Princess Bride
“At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.”
Cesare Pavese
“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“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
“Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and thoroughly worth living.”
Terry Pratchett
