Suicide Quotes - Page 26

• Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling.

  Al Yankovic

  Blow, Brain, Wish

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• Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Glasses, Bye, Long

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• Make me wanna kill myself, but I see death around the corner.

  Tupac Shakur

  Corners, Around The Corner

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• Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

  Frank Zappa

  Cracks, Stuff, Gas

  Song: Stuff Up the Cracks

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• What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.

  Elton John

  News, Littles, Scandal

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• Why don't you pass the gun around and give everyone a shot.

  Alice Cooper

  Gun, Giving, Shots

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• Suicide is the only way out.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Way, Controversy

  Song: Suicide Solution, Album: Blizzard of Ozz, 2009

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• I love the '70s, I'm very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides.

  Elle Fanning

  Long, Dresses, Chloe

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• You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.

  Antonio Porchia

  Thinking, Killing, Committing Suicide

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• Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when. A planetary culture that does not develop spacefaring is courting suicide. All our history, all our social progress and growing insight will be for nothing if we perish. No risk of this kind, however small it might be argued to be, is worth taking, and no cost to prevent it is too great. No level of risk is acceptable when it comes to all or nothing survival.

  Gregory Benford

  Space, Risk, Survival

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• Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

  Mark McKinnon

  Marine, Hostage Crisis, Presidential

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• If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Intellectual, Want, Facts

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• The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

  Paul Westerberg

  Writing, Darkness, Despair

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• The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip.

  Jack Goldstein

  Men, Flip, He Man

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• You'd commit suicide trying to read my mind

  Kid Cudi

  Mind, Trying, Commit

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• A nation never falls but by suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Nations

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

  Dick Cavett

  Littles, Irony, Patient

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.153, Macmillan

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• Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

  Dennis Covington

  Knowing, Where You Come, One Thing

  Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.236, Da Capo Press

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• No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.

  William Maginn

  Cigar, Committed, Smokers

  William Maginn (1855). “The Odoherty papers”, p.137

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• But it's a stigmatized problem, and it's a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it's a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.

  Bob Rae

  Keys, Political Will, Issues

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• Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

  Thomas Langmann

  Unique, Gambling, Cinema

  "Oscars Q&A: Thomas Langmann On The Creative Gamble Of Making 'The Artist'". Interview with Scott Timberg, deadline.com. February 4, 2012.

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• We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  July, Bombers, Lessons

  "This 7/7 report wasn't good enough" by Pauline Neville-Jones, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2009.

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• I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens.

  Rip Taylor

  Watches, Today, Ovens

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• What else is wrong with 'suicide' bombing? Legally, less than what one might believe. While it may or may not be good strategy, it appears to be permissable under international law.

  Enver Masud

  Believe, Islamic, Law

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