Robert E. Howard Quotes

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

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

One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it's the most tragic thing anybody can go through.

Suicide kills two people.

Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.

The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

Everyone can relate to depression. It touches so many. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Statistics show that women suffer from depression more than men, but that is probably because men don't report it as much.

I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.

And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.

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.

Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

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.

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

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

Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.

Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a matching and terrible reality of the deaths themselves: the young deaths, the violent deaths, the unnecessary deaths

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

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?