Committing Suicide Quotes - Page 2

• If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

  George Henry Borrow

  Suicide, Suicidal, Sight

  Lavengro Ch. XXIII

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• Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

  Saddam Hussein

  Suicide, Age, Baghdad

  2003 Speech on the anniversary of the Gulf War, 17 Jan.

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• Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Suicide, War, Fear Of Death

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• The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip.

  Jack Goldstein

  Suicide, Men, Flip

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• Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

  Jaron Lanier

  Suicide, Spirituality, Consciousness

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.20, Vintage

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• America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.

  Thomas McGuane

  Suicide, Running, Two

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• When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem.

  Johnny Isakson

  Suicide, Years, Serious

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• If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Doubt, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Choices, Doubt

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.197, Faber & Faber

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• Twenty-eight to 31 is the tough period. You have to be really careful because it's so cataclysmic, so life-altering. People do really dramatic things like get married, or they'll get divorced. Your chances of committing suicide go way up. It's basically psychic death. You see the signs of it around 27, and you're still on the out-end of it around 31. Everyone I've talked to who's gone through that and come out the other side walks out of it like, "MY LIFE IS GREAT".

  Billy Corgan

  Suicide, People, Chance

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

  Oscar Wilde

  Smile, Suicide, Depressing

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is the death of the ego. If you want to remain a separate entity from existence as almost everybody is trying to do, you will be afraid of being blissful, cheerful. You will feel guilty in being blissful. You will feel suicidal because you are committing suicide on the psychological level, on the level of the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Suicide, Suicidal, Ego

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• Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Suicide, Atmosphere, Example

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “Karmayogin”, p.132, editionNEXT.com

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• For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

  Isak Dinesen

  Suicide, Dream, People

  Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen (1987). “On Modern Marriage and Other Observations”

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• I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing. I think young people, if they are feeling like they are confused, need to know that there are people to talk to and that there are places they can go and not feel alone. But I feel that they have just as many rights as I do to not be bullied.

  Kevin Spacey

  Suicide, Bullying, Confused

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• I'm convinced Mr. Reagan would never be elected- I don't think his views are held by a majority of the American people...it's the Republican party that's going to be committing suicide by nominating candidates of that genre.

  John Anderson

  Suicide, Party, Thinking

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• America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.

  Bertrand Russell

  Suicide, Land, America

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Fact and Fiction”, p.11, Routledge

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• I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.

  Tom Spanbauer

  Suicide, Believe, Catholic

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, believermag.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suicide, Jobs, Way

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Suicide, Reason, Worst

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.199, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Suicide, Missing, Stories

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• When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.

  Ricky Martin

  Suicide, Gay, People

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• I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.

  Victoria Chang

  Suicide, People, Obsessed

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a larger-than-life tough-guy figure. He doesn't go on photographed hunting expeditions, for instance. But he does have hero moments, such as when his convoy stopped in the middle of the Bosphorus Bridge and he allegedly talked down a jumper, prevented him from committing suicide.

  Peter Kenyon

  Suicide, Hero, Character

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

  Jennifer Stone

  Suicide, Children, Tails

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