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
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
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. - Albert Camus
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
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. - Emile Durkheim
Even if those who take their own lives feel they have no choice – indeed, they often tragically believe their family and friends will be better off without them – the death rarely appears inevitable to those left behind. Feelings of anger and guilt and abandonment invade them, as if love should or could have prevented what happened. Survivors relive, over and over, the last days and months, even years, before the suicide, seeing now the signs that were missed, which they believe they should have recognized. - Susan Sterling
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
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. - Mahatma Gandhi
If you must commit suicide… always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. - George Borrow
I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide. - Jesse Ventura
In most cases, suicide is a solitary event and yet it has often far-reaching repercussions for many others. It is rather like throwing a stone into a pond; the ripples spread and spread. - Alison Wertheimer
Life is like a movie, if you’ve sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far, it probably isn’t gonna get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early. - Doug Stanhope
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission. - Cesare Pavese
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently. - Dick Cavett
Suicide does not take away the pain, it gives it to someone else. - Unknown
Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is morally desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere. - Thomas S. Szasz
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. - Phil Donahue
Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well. - Earl A. Grollman
Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are the very same folks who won't even remember you a week after you're gone, while the people you want to spare most – the people who love you – are the ones who will have to live with the pain of your suicide for the rest of their lives. - David J. Lieberman
Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged – where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only. - Philip Roth
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live - Charles Caleb Colton
Surely there was nothing more pathetic than screwing up your own suicide. - Michael Marshall
The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world. - G.K. Chesterton
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. - Emily Cioran
The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. - Chuck Palahniuk
The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night. - Friedrich Nietzsche
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. - Cyril Connolly
We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm. - Jeffrey Eugenides
When people kill themselves, they think they’re ending the pain, but all they’re doing is passing it on to those they leave behind. - Jeannette Walls
When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you’re laughing again. - Marilyn Monroe
When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it’s time to check your premises. - Friedrich Nietzsche
You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. - Chuck Palahniuk
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