Mao Zedong Quotes

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.

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have the money. But if we can't put some of our investments, or some of our money back into humans, isn't that where it all begins?

When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

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 think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.

No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.

It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather.

Suicide note. "To my friends. My work is done why wait?"

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.

Bridget who is crazy said that sometimes she thought about suicide when commercials come on during TV. She was sincere and this puzzled the guidance counselors.

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

Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.

I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad but that I couldn't commit suicide and then try MIT afterwards. The two operations, suicide and going to MIT, don't commute.

We don't judge people for dying in car crashes. But we do judge people when they die of suicide.

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

I didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead.

If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows.

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.

We were going to kill ourselves in trying to kill each other.