Quotes of: Suicide Keyword

Harold: [non-sequitur to hawkish uncle] During war time, the national suicide rate goes down.

Harold and Maude

Edward "Hutch" Hutchins: I see you had another suicide up there at, uh, Happy House.

Rosemary's Baby

Karol Karol: [to the man who wanted help committing suicide] That was a blank. The next one's real. Are you sure?

Three Colors: White

Thomas E. Burnett, Jr.: Hey, this is a suicide mission. We have to do something. They are not gonna land this plane.

United 93

New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.

Aleksandar Hemon

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.

Everett Dirksen

When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.

Blake McIver Ewing

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

Robert Wyatt

Alvy Singer: Sylvia Plath - interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college girl mentality.

Annie Hall

It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.

Thomas Sowell

He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives.

Umberto Eco

Someday science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Love

For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - that's what I deeply loved.

Joel Sternfeld

Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution is their only perceived means of survival.) Millions of children work as prostitutes around the...

The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

In the letter he left for the coroner he had explained his reasoning (for suicide): that life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it ...

The Sense of an Ending

She was disgusted with herself...and the disgust permanently cured her of suicide. Her piddling life did not deserve dramatic remedies.

Cigarettes

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

The Color of Magic

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Essays: First and Second Series

We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.

Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

Continuously lying to yourself is just as fatal as suicide; only slower. Take ownership of your life, be accountable to you.

44 Days of Leadership

What's the big fucking deal? Lots of amazing people have committed suicide, and they turned out alright.

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls