Committing Suicide Quotes

• Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Suicide, Men, Politics

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• From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Suicide, Grief, Perspective

  Stanley Hauerwas (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.591, Duke University Press

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• What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.

  J. D. Salinger

  Suicide, Stupid, Jumping

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

  Bill Vaughan

  Suicide, Nuts, Bridges

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• If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Funny Love, Wise

  "The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas".

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• Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

  Phil Donahue

  Sad, Wise, Suicide

  Attributed in "Psychology: Modules for Active Learning" by Dennis Coon, ‎John Mitterer, (p. 553), 2014.

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• If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Suicidal, Together Again

  Antonin Artaud, Jack Hirschman (1963). “Artaud Anthology”, p.56, City Lights Books

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• Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.68, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

  Ned Vizzini

  Depression, Wake Up, Want

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  Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

  John Adams

  Suicide, Freedom, Suicidal

  Letter from John Adams to John Taylor, 15 Apr. 1814

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• Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Suicide

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “A Step of Faith: A Novel”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

  Emilie Autumn

  Suicide, Suicidal, People

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• 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, Self Harm, Suicidal

  Antonin Artaud, Jack Hirschman (1963). “Artaud Anthology”, p.56, City Lights Books

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• Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.

  Richard Bach

  Suicide, Suicidal, Starting Over

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• When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Suicide, Travel, Journey

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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• Be who you are. Otherwise, you end up committing suicide. You end up marrying people when you shouldn't be marrying them and having terrible, secret lives.

  Marlo Thomas

  Suicide, People, Be Who You Are

  "Marlo Thomas on her dad and why everyone needs to be free". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.businessinsider.com. October 9, 2015.

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• No one commits suicide because they want to die.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Suicide, Suicidal, Want

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.68, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

  Bill Maher

  Death, God, Suicide

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Suicide, Real, Prevention

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Suicide, Men, Political

  Letter to Bernard Baruch, August 19, 1916.

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• Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Inspirational, Suicide, People

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Correction: A Novel”, p.244, Vintage

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• The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be a disaster. There's some resistance to that now. In the US, it's essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration.

  Noam Chomsky

  Suicide, Europe, Austerity

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.

  George Weinberg

  Suicide, Gay, Men

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• My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Suicide, Ideas, Literature

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2004). “The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition: A Romance”, p.112, Broadview Press

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• Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to be famous, and were brilliant enough to make it happen. But then what? Drug addicts kill themselves trying to get that feeling they got from their first high, looking for an experience they'll never get again. In his suicide note, Cobain asked himself, "Why don't you just enjoy it?" and then answered, "I don't know!" It's amazing how much of a mindfuck success can be.

  Jay-Z

  Suicide, Drug, Feelings

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.117, Random House Group

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