George Borrow Quotes

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

A book is a suicide postponed.

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

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.

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

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.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.

The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

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.

We decided to speak publicly about suicide because we wanted to make a difference in other people's lives.

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

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

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

I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)

I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

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.