Suicide Quotes

There was a time when [the Church wouldn't] do funerals for suicides, because [the person] didn't keep walking toward the goal; he put an end to the path when he felt like it. But this is a person who couldn't overcome the contradictions. I don't reject him. I leave it in God's hands.

Catholicism

A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it.  Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

The question is whether it is the way out, or the way in.

If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

He who saves a man against his will as good as murders him.

Suicide is our way of saying to God, "You can't fire me.  I quit!"

A suicide kills two people, Maggi. That's what it's for!

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

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

Suicide itself is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

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