(523 quotes found)
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
Ben Okri
“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
“Imitation is suicide”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.”
Spalding Gray
“Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."”
Bill Maher
“Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.”
H. Barbusse
“Skepticism is slow suicide”
“A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!”
Arthur Miller
“I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.”
Ezra Pound
“A nation never falls but by suicide”