Suicidal Behavior Quotes

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

I thought men like that shot themselves.

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

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

Suicide's a criminal offense — In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

In every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future.

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

I'm trying to keep"― he huffed, shifting his weight as the treetop bounced him―"my promise!" I blinked my wet blurry eyes, suddenly sure that I was dreaming. "When did you ever promise to kill yourself falling out of Charlie's tree?

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.

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

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

You want to go easy on the suicide stuff - first thing you know, you'll ruin your health.

We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.