Suicide Quotes
Most popular 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. - Pope Francis quote.](/img/q/91/12691A-there-was-a-time-when-the-church-wouldnt-do-funerals-pope-francis.png)
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.
![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. - Margaret Atwood quote.](/img/q/49/40449A-a-suicide-is-both-a-rebuke-living-puzzle-that-defies-margaret-atwood.png)
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. - Albert Camus quote.](/img/q/50/40450A-there-is-but-one-truly-serious-philosophical-problem-that-is-albert-camus.png)
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. - Cyril Connolly quote.](/img/q/51/40451A-when-even-despair-ceases-to-serve-any-creative-purpose-then-cyril-connolly.png)
When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
![Comedians are the nearest to suicide. - Lawrence Durrell quote.](/img/q/52/40452A-comedians-are-the-nearest-to-suicide-lawrence-durrell.png)
Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
![The question is whether it is the way out, or the way in. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.](/img/q/53/40453A-the-question-is-whether-it-is-way-out-or-way-ralph-waldo-emerson.png)
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. - Louise Erdrich quote.](/img/q/54/40454A-if-lifes-a-joke-then-suicides-bad-punch-line-louise-erdrich.png)
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. - Horace quote.](/img/q/55/40455A-he-who-saves-a-man-against-his-will-as-good-horace.png)
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!" - Bill Maher quote.](/img/q/56/40456A-suicide-is-our-way-of-saying-god-you-cant-fire-bill-maher.png)
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! - Arthur Miller quote.](/img/q/57/40457A-a-suicide-kills-two-people-maggi-thats-what-its-arthur-miller.png)
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. - Friedrich Nietzsche quote.](/img/q/58/40458A-the-thought-of-suicide-is-a-great-consolation-by-means-friedrich-nietzsche.png)
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. - Dorothy Parker quote.](/img/q/59/40459A-razors-pain-you-rivers-are-damp-acids-stain-you-drugs-dorothy-parker.png)
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. - Anne Sexton quote.](/img/q/60/40460A-but-suicides-have-a-special-language-like-carpenters-they-want-anne-sexton.png)
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. - Voltaire quote.](/img/q/62/40462A-the-man-who-in-a-fit-melancholy-kills-himself-today-voltaire.png)
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.