Quotes about Suicide

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

But to be hanged—is that not unendurable? Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

We would communicate a far more compassionate message to those who are terminally ill and dying—and to be honest, even to those for whom dying is a long way off—if we focused our energies on helping people die right. To die right. That's what it's all about. Unfortunately, euthanasia has become a popular topic because people are led to believe that death by suicide or homicide is more dignified than dying naturally.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Sartre went so far as to say that the only question he could not answer was why he did not commit suicide.

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.