Amy Goodman Quotes

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.

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.

They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.

Have you made any plans? Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself. All those things together? It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

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.

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.

But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

I don't persuade to suicide.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.