Quotes tagged ‘Suicide’

“When someone is in such a state of psychological pain that they believe death to be the best choice, impulsivity makes it harder to slow down and consider alternatives.”

— Lauren Vinopal , melmagazine.com

“Suicide hotlines are advertised as a saving grace for people in crisis. But what happens when the people who are supposed to be there for you let you down — or even make things worse?”

— Ashley Laderer, healthline.com

“Rick Gassko: What the hell are you doing? Brad: I’m slashing my wrist. Rick Gassko: With an electric razor? Brad: Yeah, I couldn’t find any razor blades. Rick Gassko: Well at least your wrist will be smooth and kissable.”

— Pat Proft, Bob Israel, Neal Israel, Rick Gassko, Tom Hanks, imdb.com

“Bill: Jo. Things go wrong. You can’t explain it, you can’t predict it. Killing yourself won’t bring your dad back. I’m sorry that he died, but that was a long time ago. You gotta move on. Stop living in the past, and look what you got right in front of you. Jo: What are you talking about? Bill: Me,…”

— Michael Crichton, Anne-Marie Martin, Bill Harding, Bill Paxton, imdb.com

“Mitch: What are you doing? Chris Knight: Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, ‘... I drank what?’”

— Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Peter Torokvei, Chris Knight, Val Kilmer, imdb.com

“When you’re not doing well, it almost feels instinctive to open up about these things — you’re often wearing them on your sleeve for all to see, anyway. But when things are going great on paper, it’s like seeing an elaborate display of crackers in a grocery store and pulling a box out from the botto…”

— Rosemary Donahue, allure.com

“Gene Cousineau: Suicide, Barry. Are you not familiar with the Japanese ritual of harakiri? Barry Berkman: The baseball announcer? Gene Cousineau: I need you out of my house.”

— Bill Hader, Alec Berg, Barry Berkman, Bill Hader, imdb.com

“Let me lay out one of the personality differences between men and women, because it’s worth understanding. You might say, 'well, there can’t be personality differences between men and women, because that’s anti-feminist.' It’s like, 'no, it’s not. We might have to actually understand that there are…”

— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com

“It turns out that differences in aggression and agreeableness also predict differences in interest. So it turns out that men are more interested, in average, in things than women are; and women are more interested in people, on average. That’s actually the biggest difference that’s been measured bet…”

— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com

“Epstein was in his own cell, but was not currently on suicide watch at the time of his death, people familiar with the investigation said.”

— Emma Newburger, cnbc.com

“Anything is possible. But with suicide we like to think it’s this clear thing, one way or the other. And it’s not. That’s the horrible thing about suicide. The family members are left for their entire lives wondering why.”

— Anderson Cooper, amazon.com

“injects a language and vocabulary into your life that’s suddenly there. And that’s why [members of the same family] commit suicide. If your parent commits suicide, there’s a much greater chance that you will commit suicide later in life.”

— Anderson Cooper, amazon.com

“It’s not the first thing, but there’s not a day that goes by that you don’t think about it. That’s the thing about suicide.”

— Anderson Cooper, amazon.com

“I just thought...I couldn’t stand living, and I was afraid of dying. And that’s, you know, you hear— like Kurt Cobain, who shot himself. That’s just a long-term solution to a short-term problem. I’ve got too much to live for, you know? But when you’re in that hole, when you’re in that hole...it’s a…”

— Ozzy Osbourne, amazon.com

“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.”

— Elton John, rollingstone.com

“You hear it all the time: When you write about a personal experience, especially one that is dark and unpalatable, you should be far, far removed from that time in your life to process it in writing. You should have a lesson, a realization, a moral, a triumph. An ending. But I might want to die fore…”

— Anna Borges, theoutline.com

“I was public because I started to receive stories from kids who read online that I was gay. They were going through being bullied, feeling like their family didn’t love them, being pushed out of their home, very close to suicide. Just things that really pulled on my heart. I started saying, ‘You kno…”

— Tim Cook, 9to5mac.com

“Good evening. Today is Wednesday, September the 24th, and this is my last broadcast. Yesterday I announced on this program that I was going to commit public suicide, admittedly an act of madness. Well, I'll tell you what happened: I just ran out of bullshit. Am I still on the air? I really don't kno…”

— Paddy Chayefsky, Howard Beale, Peter Finch, imdb.com

“I’ve always had this thing inside me that, when I’m done, I’ll kill myself. I swear to God that’s not suicidal – it’s definitely a positive thing. The moment I start shitting the bed is when you’ll see me on the front of a bus.”

— Keith Flint, matt-blake.co.uk

“The show is interested in love, but it’s much more interested, in both jaunty and melancholic ways, in death itself—in the terror of dying, but also in its temptation.”

— Emily Nussbaum, newyorker.com