Ray Davies Quotes

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

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.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.

But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.

To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

Never thoughts of suicide, I'm too alive. But I still treat it like it's do or die.. even though dyin' isn't in the plans, but neither was makin' it and here I am

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.

If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.

Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

If things are really overwhelming and you need to talk, you can give me a call at 347-273-2044.

Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest.

He killed himself for wanting to live.

Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.

For a government of any party, and for every one of us, even one suicide is worrisome.

If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

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

Suicide is the only way out.

I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.