Suicide Death Quotes

For us, it was never about death. It was about life. Knowing that there was a way out, and that his suffering was not going to become unendurable, was the one thing that allowed Mr. Peterson to go on living, much longer than he would have otherwise wanted. It was the weeks leading up to our pact that were shrouded in darkness and despair; after its inception, life became a meaningful prospect once more. ~ Gavin Extence

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live. ~ G.K. Chesterton

To make yourself something less than you can be - that too is a form of suicide. ~ Benjamin Lichtenberg

If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life? ~ Sue Rodriguez

Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide. ~ Thomm Quackenbush

It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide. ~ Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit! ~ Bill Maher

I lived my whole life following others' wishes. Let me follow my own wish in my death. ~ Shon Mehta

That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and suicide: death itself. For before the white men came to Guinea to strip-mine field hands ... black people did not die ... the decedent ... took up residence in an afterworld that was in many ways indistinguishable from his former estate. ~ David Bradley

You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid ... . You refuse to do it because you want to live longer ... . You're afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you're afraid that somebody will stab you, or shoot at you or bomb your house; so you refuse to take the stand.
Well, you may go on and live until you are 90, but you're just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Death, it seems, has a mind of its own. ~ Ruta Sepetys

Christians best thrive as a minority, a counterculture. Historically, when they reach a majority they too have yielded to the temptations of power in ways that are clearly anti-gospel. Charlemagne ordered a death penalty for all Saxons who would not convert, and in 1492 Spain decreed that all Jews convert to Christianity or be expelled. British Protestants in Ireland once imposed a stiff fine on anyone who did not attend church and deputies forcibly dragged Catholics into Protestant churches. Priests in the American West sometimes chained Indians to church pews to enforce church attendance. After many such episodes in Christendom it became clear that religion allied too closely to the state leads to the abuse of power. Much of the current hostility against Christians evokes the memory of such examples. The blending of church and state may work for a time but it inevitably provokes a backlash, such as that seen in secular Europe today. ~ Philip Yancey

Fear not death, nor Satan's thrusts, God defends whom in Him trusts; ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead? ~ Seneca The Younger

This was an evil choice. Which way should he choose? And if both led to terror and death, what good lay in choice? ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death. ~ Neil Postman

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him. ~ James Russell Lowell

Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a closed mind ... the basic issue is not the efficacy of Laetrile, but the infringement of freedom in what amounts to a life and death question. ~ Phil Crane

Memento mori," the monarch whispered. "Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully. I see in your eyes that you have your mother's generous soul. Your conscience will be your guide. When life is dark, let your heart show you the way. ~ Dan Brown

Voltaire sees only the terrible truth that the history of suffering and death is not morally intelligible. Dostoyevsky sees--and this bespeaks both his moral genius and his irreducibly Christian view of reality--that it would be far more terrible if it were. ~ David Bentley Hart

In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life. ~ Sara Gruen

Seen from the outside, death was a very gradual process of cell decomposition. It took time. Death didn't happen in an instant. ~ Project Itoh

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly."
from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death ~ C. G. Jung

We are not playing hide-and-seek, Harry," said Voldemort's soft, cold voice, drawing nearer, as the Death Eaters laughed. "You cannot hide from me. Does this mean you are tired of our duel? Does this mean that you would prefer me to finish it now, Harry? Come out, Harry . . . come out and play, then . . . it will be quick . . . it might even be painless . . . I would not know . . . I have never died. . . ." Harry ~ J.K. Rowling

There is no shame here. The places where we still fear are simply the places we have yet to fully receive God's love. Only by his grace and in his love can we let our fear go. Let go and receive. Receive his dreams. Receive his love. It is an exchange of fear for desire. It is an exchange of death for life. There is no fear in love. And I can tell you this with certainty: God does not want you to live in fear. And he does want you to live. Don't be afraid. Just believe. ~ Stasi Eldredge

Every day you live is a holiday from death. ~ Marty Rubin

If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live? ~ Jennifer Ryan

If they don't utter the words, it cannot happen. But words, once spoken, seal a man or maid for life or death. [Gisa] ~ Karen Maitland

The putting to death of morality had, on the whole, become a sort of ritual sacrifice necessary for the reassertion of the dominant values of the group - centered for some decades now on competition, innovation, and energy, more than on fidelity and duty. ~ Michel Houellebecq

Death is a cruel mistress.
So long she ruled me in fear,
Took my life away.
But I am standing up,
No more,
I will not give myself away.
I will die in freedom,
In passion,
In bliss.
I will die, yes, that is true,
But first I will live to my heart's content.
Death and life, my friends. ~ Avina Celeste

From her bed she could hear her mother and father arguing. After her father's death when she was eleven, she could hear her older brother, Bud, argue with their mother. From what she had learned about domestic battery in the last few years, she should have expected to end up with an abuser, even though her father never hit her or her mother, and the worst she ever got from Bud was a shove or slug in the arm. But man, could the men in her family yell. So loud, so mad, she wondered why the windows didn't crack. Demand, belittle, insult, accuse, sulk, punish with the meanest words. It was just a matter of degrees; abuse is abuse. The ~ Robyn Carr

I don't subscribe to the notion
that flowers are a terrible gift
because they die.
So will you.
And is your heart,
the spirit and meat of it,
chief of dreams,
commander pump,
a terrible gift
for someone loved? ~ Chelsea Bayouth

Thought like that showed me the needless ambiguity of words like space-time. The average person heard a word like that and figured he'd never understand it. But it was so simple. Every place you ever saw was linked to a specific time ... the school you visited twenty years after you graduated, the football field you played on, the track you ran -- none of them was the same. If they were, you would collide with the generations that had run on them before and after you. The lover you kissed was not the same person he or she was sixty seconds before. In that minute, a million skin cells had died and been replaced by new ones. The smallest slices of space-time separated thought from action Life from death. ~ Greg Iles

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where. ~ William Shakespeare

What happened in the bar doesn't matter anymore. None of that matters. It's already the past and the past is dead. It's a shed skin. The present is worthless. It's just a thin membrane between the death of the past and the endless offerings for living in the future. I pick the future. ~ Gregory Sherl

Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating. ~ Karen Armstrong

Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a month in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days. They learn to take dying as a matter of course. ~ Aldous Huxley

...only when a man dies can his life acquire a beginning, middle, and an end: up until then we are constantly unfinished, even the midpoint cannot be located. So only the final word finds the middle word and this, in a way becomes a verse--one's death explains oneself. ~ Colum McCann

She felt she had been created by the demands of others, by their insatiable appetite for something beyond ordinary life. They craved a world without death and they had spotted her, in their hunger, like wolves alert to any poor sheep that might stray from the fold and stand gazing ignorantly up at the stars. ~ Valerie Martin

You can't live your life thinking death is going to come all the time. You have to live life and if it comes, then we can only hope we were able to do all the things we wanted. He has to want to do something. Everyone does. ~ Shelena Shorts

A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death. ~ Stephen Crane

It doesn't bother me that I won't be around one day," Lukas said after a while. "I don't stress about the fact that I wasn't here a hundred years ago. I think death will be a lot like that. A hundred years from now my life will be just like it was a hundred years ago. ~ Hugh Howey

Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi