147 Movie Quotes about Suicide (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Jan 6, 2026

Memorable quotes about suicide, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

41 Trying to improve the world by jumping off buildings. You couldn't improve the world if the buildings jumped on you.

Quote from Meet John Doe (1941)

42 It's against the law to commit suicide around here.

Quote from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

43 Did you ever think about killing yourself on purpose, like Daddy did? -I've studied about it some. The Bible says you ought not to. Says if you do that, you go out to Hades.

Billy Bob Thornton as Karl Childers in Sling Blade (1996)

44 Looks like a hanging party.

James Cagney as The Oklahoma Kid in The Oklahoma Kid (1939)

45 Excuse me, sir, but what about the body that fell out the window? -Well, who knows? It was probably some stockbroker who got depressed.

Bruce Willis as John McClane in Die Hard (1988)

46 You know what they say about people who commit suicide? In the afterlife, they become civil servants.

Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse in Beetlejuice

47 Yup. Dan is the only guy I ever knew who had guts enough not to commit suicide.

John Wayne as Dan Roman in The High and the Mighty (1954)

48 If not... please consider me as an alternative to suicide.

Chris Sarandon as Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride (1987)

49 Suddenly I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in, to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked cruel world.

Malcolm McDowell as Alex Delarge in A Clockwork Orange

50 My alternatives? To what? To you? I don't know. Suicide. Death.

Joe Pesci as Vinny Gambini in My Cousin Vinny

147 Movie Quotes about Suicide (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

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