#suicide

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#almost #animal #any #anytime #blushing

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#hope #impulse #life #major #necessity

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for! ↗

— Arthur Miller

#maggie #people #suicide #two #two people

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#alone #early #i #nights #poems

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#different #four #gay #i #i wish

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

#bomber #conversation #our #remain #right

It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#correct #cult #describe #faction #islamic

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide. ↗

— Friedrich List

#commit #entirely #everything #fall #industry

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

#attempts #attention #even #get #later

Death is easy. To live is the most painful thing I could imagine and im weak and no longer willing to fight. ↗

— Hannah Wright

#death