Suicide Quotes
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. (Quote by - John Adams)
But if there be an hereafter, And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd And suffer'd to speak out, tells every man, Then must it be an awful thing to die; More horrid yet to die by one's own hand. (Quote by - Robert Blair)
Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
I suggested [in 1966] that we use the panther as our symbol and call our political vehicle the Black Panther Party. The panther is a fierce animal, but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner; then he will strike out. (Quote by - Huey Newton)
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. (Quote by - Arnold Toynbee)
Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that imitation is suicide: that he must take himself for better, or for worse. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Bravest at the last, She levelled at our purposes, and being royal, Took her own way. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates. (Quote by - Saddam Hussein)
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide. (Quote by - Karl Menninger)
That was a suicide pass by Easton, he could have been responsible for the first opening goal for Leeds [as opposed to the second opening goal, presumably!] (Quote by - David Platt)
She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it. (Quote by - George Carlin)
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. (Quote by - Aristotle)
You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me; Let not my worser spirit tempt me again To die before you please. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I am leaving you with your worries. Good luck. (Quote by - George Sanders)
When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew; Who e'er a greater madness knew? Life to destroy for fear to die. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
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. (Quote by - David Hume)
The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter. (Quote by - John Bright)
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. (Quote by - Phil Donahue)
We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide. (Quote by - Ramsay MacDonald)
If I had no sense of humour, I would long ago have committed suicide. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. (Quote by - Judy Collins)
I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it. (Quote by - Lesley Boone)
We are a thoroughly trained suicide squad. We can commit suicide within twenty seconds. (Quote by - Monty Python)
Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Being Open Source gave us market share, name recognition, and street creds: intangible perhaps, but very valuable. Frankly, I think that closing up the sendmail source code would have been suicide. (Quote by - Eric Allman)
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide. (Quote by - Edward Young)
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. (Quote by - John Adams)
Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die! (Quote by - George Darley)
If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history. (Quote by - Greg Knight)
What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide (Quote by - Geoff Boycott)
The common damn'd shun their society. (Quote by - Robert Blair)
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:--this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission. (Quote by - Robert Blair)
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. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Suicide is our way of saying to God, 'You can't fire me, I quit!' (Quote by - Bill Maher)
What Cato did, and Addison approved, Cannot be wrong. (Quote by - Eustace Budgell)
And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
While foulest fiends shun thy society. (Quote by - Nathaniel Lee)
