(523 quotes found)
“No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.”
Cesare Pavese
“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”
Aristotle
“AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.”
Susan Sontag
“He's not going to get away from me that easily. I'll follow him through hell [after Kurt's suicide attempt]”
Courtney Love
“In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.”
William Bernbach
“There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.”
Dave Navarro
“No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one”
Robert Byrne
“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.”
“My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.”
Roseanne Barr
“However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.”
Graham Greene
