I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
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.
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.
My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life,' which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.
Suicide is not a remedy.
Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.
My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.
I have a suicide impulse.
He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.
Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.
I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.
Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.
If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
I don't persuade to suicide.
We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
