Suicidal Quotes - Page 11

• Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .

  John Templeton

  Happiness, Happy, Spiritual

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• The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Effort, Desperate

  The Defendant introduction (1901)

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• I find contemporary Holocausts against other species so unbearable as to make life itself a fundamental question mark. Are we a demonic, suicidal species? Can good conquer evil? And if so, when will that renaissance of virtue occur? This is truly "psychology today."

  Michael Tobias

  Evil, Holocaust, Psychology

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Why is nobody questioning the sanity or suicidal tendencies of Everest ascenders? It's kind of a question of framing: How do you frame these activities? We frame them as freedom-loving, exciting, progressing sports and they are. But there are other ways to frame it. It's also true that these young men, neurologists say that their frontal lobes aren't developed yet - the long-term planning part of the brain.

  Lucy Walker

  Sports, Men, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I heard a girl crying help
  I would go to save her;
  But you hardly ever hear those words.
  Dear children, you must try to say
  Something when you are in need.
  Don't confuse hunger with greed;
  And don't wait until you are dead.

  Ruth Stone

  Girl, Children, Greed

  Ruth Stone (1991). “Second-hand Coat: Poems New and Selected”

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• Every disposable job makes you partially suicidal. But I've always worked because I need to buy drugs and wigs so I could go out in drag and get wasted!

  Sharon Needles

  Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My wife made me join a bridge club... I jump off next Tuesday.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Bridges

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• Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Patience, Pain

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• It's been so much a part of my life the thinking that I go through is crucial. I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

  Damian Loeb

  Thinking, Long, Week

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Finding intelligent life would encourage people and also of course the opportunity of learning a tremendous amount, but this is a danger. We might be so overwhelmed with knowledge and information, that we might be depressed or even become suicidal - because what's the point if they're thousands of years ahead of us? Why should we bother? - or become the ultimate couch potatoes.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Intelligent, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.salon.com

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• When depression or suicidal thoughts weigh heavily, the hardest thing to do is to fight. My battle weapons are the Word of God, meditation, confession, community, and worship. But each evening I take my medication with a prayer of thanksgiving that God has provided this kind of help for those of us who need it.

  Sheila Walsh

  Prayer, Fighting, Community

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Kat laughed. 'Who wants to live forever?' Kish put his hand up. 'For the record, I do.' Sin scowled at him. 'Then why do you irritate me so often?' Suicidal tendencies are inherent in my species?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hands, Forever, Records

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.314, Macmillan

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• Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

  Audre Lorde

  Children, Dragons, Justice

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.74, Crossing Press

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• Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

  Khalil Gibran

  Suicide, Men, Self

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

  Rebecca West

  Saws, Unending, Dies

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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• Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.

  Emile Durkheim

  Suicide, Spring, Tolerance

  Suicide: A Study in Sociology bk. 3, ch. 3 (1897) (translation by John A. Spaulding and George Simpson)

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• Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything about it. Was there a psychological term for that? Was there a disease that involved an intense desire to die, but no will to go through with it? Couldn't talk and thoughts of suicide be considered a whole malady of their own, a special subcategory of depression in which the loss of a will to live has not quite been displaced by a determination to die?

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Suicide, Determination, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Suicide, Hands, Energy

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• Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.

  Mira Grant

  Bars, Coke, Defying

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• Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Courage, Ignorance

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• Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home, and a life that made sense. (Well, as much as an life makes sense). Then I found an injured girl bleeding on the pavement and I tried to be Good Samaritan. Now I've got no fiance, no home, no job, and I'm walking around a couple of hundred feet under the streets of London with the projected life expectancy of a suicidal fruit fly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Friday, Jobs

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• Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

  Katherine Paterson

  Heart, Thinking, Differences

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• Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?" Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla." - Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Girl, Mean, Beer

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

  William James

  Suicide, Men, Educated

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

  Nick Hornby

  People, Far Away

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