Gordon Klingenschmitt Quotes

I don't persuade to suicide.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

Have you made any plans? Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself. All those things together? It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

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.

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

If you tell me you are going to kill yourself, I'm not going to try to talk you out of it.

They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.

I'll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill.

If you intend to die, you can do anything.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.