Suicide Intervention Quotes

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

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

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

Books about suicide make lousy gifts.

If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.

I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)

A book is a suicide postponed.

Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.

To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

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.

Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others.

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.

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.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.

I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark...'

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.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.

If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

Trying to stop suiciders -- which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion -- is difficult to do. And what the Iraqis are going to have to eventually do is convince those who are conducting suiciders who are not inspired by Al Qaeda, for example, to realize there's a peaceful tomorrow.

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.