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Charles Caleb Colton Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Arthur Schopenhauer They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; . . . that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
?Immanuel Kant Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
Arthur Schopenhauer They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; . . . that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Bertrand Russell Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Mohandas Gandhi If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Bill Maher Suicide is man's way of telling God, You can't fire me - I quit.
Bill Maher Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Steven Wright A man committed suicide by overdosing on decongestant tablets.All they found was a pile of dust.
Abraham Lincoln If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Susan Sontag AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.
Charles Horton Cooley One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Harry S Truman Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Henry David Thoreau Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
Albert Camus There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Steven Wright I once tried to commit suicide by jumping off a building... Ichanged my mind at the last minute, so I just flipped over andlanded on my feet. Two little kittens nearby saw what happenedand one turned to the other and said, "See, that's how it'sdone."
SHELLEY: _Peter Bell the Third, Hell,_ St. 6. There is great talk of revolution, And a great chance of despotism, German soldiers, camps, confusion, Tumults, lotteries, rage, delusion, Gin, suicide, and Methodism.
Joseph Heller Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
?Immanuel Kant Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
Charles Caleb Colton Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Franz Kafka If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
Ben Bova The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.
George Will In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
Imitation is suicide.
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
The perfect man of action, is the suicide.
Have you ever dated someone because you were too lazy to commit suicide?
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
Suicide is the most sincere form of self criticism.
Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.
Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Someone bent on suicide won???t have much sense of humour left.
New members urgently required for Suicide Club.
I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.
The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!!
"Bother," said Pooh as he forged Christopher Robin's suicide note.
"Brother," said Pooh, as he forged Christopher Robin's suicide note
"Brother," said Pooh as he forged Christopher Robin's suicide note.
"Bother," said Pooh, as he forged Christopher Robin's suicide note.
"Bother!" said Pooh, as he forged Necheyev's suicide note.
"Have you ever dated somebody because you were too lazy to commit suicide?"-Judy Tenuda
"Cat commits suicide, shot in head 9 times" say police.
"I can't decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling." -- Florence Henderson
"Bother," said Pooh, as he forged Necheyev's suicide note.
"Bother," said @F as he forged Christopher Robin's suicide note
"Bother," said Pooh as he forged Necheyev's suicide note.
"Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, Heavy Metal, Suicide" -I didn't start the
"Someone's tryin' to commit suicide in our jail cell." Sheriff Buck
"Bother," said Pooh, as the Suicide Hotline put him on hold
"Hello, Sacramento Kings Fans Suicide Hotline."
"Hello, San Diego Padres Fans Suicide Hotline."
"You spoke to 5 people and they all comitted suicide!" * Lister
"I was kidding about that suicide pact." Joel Robinson
"I think it's time we considered that suicide pact." Crow
"That ship was constructed for a suicide mission." Spock
"Never murder a man who is about to commit suicide." - German Proverb
"Regretable that this society has chosen suicide." Spock-2
"500 people, 1 gunshot and _everyone_ says they did it? Put suicide..."
"Have you ever dated somebody because you were too lazy to commit suicide?"
"All this, self-inflicted. Mass suicide!" Kirk
"Suicide Hotline...please hold for the next available..."
"That's not a plan! That's suicide!" -- Al Calavicci
"A murder is only an extraverted suicide."
"That's suicide, Data!" - Riker
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
"So what does Forensics say?" Sheridan "Suicide." Garibaldi
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of the

 

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