We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay. – George Weinberg
Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. – Mark McKinnon
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. – Friedrich Nietzsche
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it’s bad, it’s really simple. – Damien Hirst
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently. – Dick Cavett
The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river. – Denise Mina
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education. – Neil Gorsuch
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. – Marilyn Hacker
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. – Judd Nelson
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group. – Lydia Millet
The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children. – Jerry Costello
The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime. – John Ashcroft
I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable. – Larry Kramer
There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others. – Lafcadio Hearn
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. – Karl A. Menninger
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide. – Karl A. Menninger
My mother’s suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn’t even remember later on. – Lorna Luft
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. – Marc Andreessen
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation. – Keith Henson
On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, ‘You have the right to remain silent.’ – Mitt Romney