Quotes about Suicide
It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
- Samuel Beckett
Human nature is a strange mixture, Watson. You see that even a villain and murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
If America would come to herself and return to her true home, "one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all," she would give the democratic creed a new authentic ring, enkindle the imagination of mankind and fire the souls of men. If she fails, she will be victimized with the ultimate social psychosis that can lead only to national suicide.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is the very thing that has driven people to suicide through the centuries. It is hopelessness made real, or to use Milton's famous phrase, it is "darkness visible," a description that the author William Styron used as a title for his own poignant memoir on depression.
- Eric Metaxas
Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement.
- Graham Greene
A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
- Oscar Wilde
She confided to Eltringham that she wanted to kill herself in order to stop the suppressive body thetans from taking over her mind.
- Lawrence Wright
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.
- Pope John Paul II
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
- Oscar Wilde
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nearly a million people take their lives each year. It's not about survival; it's about finding meaning in living. Even in our suffering
- Richard Paul Evans
Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a cover for desperation and nihilism, but not for religion.
- Walter Kasper