Suicidal Quotes - Page 13

• You don't really think that things will ever get better, but they do. People always ask me, "What would you say to gay teen youth that are suicidal, or someone who is addicted right now?," and it's hard to say with words that things will change, but they do.

  Patty Schemel

  Gay, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I had to do this album. I tried thinking, "I'm not going to do it." But then I'm sitting there getting all suicidal and depressed, and I just start writing. It's like this inner drive. If I could choose, I would probably be living in the countryside and be fine with that, but I'm not.

  Lykke Li

  Writing, Thinking, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There is no madder nation than Japan. ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Country, Suicide, Glasses

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• I believe what I call common sense gun reform. Plus, a revolution in mental health, making sure that if people are having a nervous breakdown, or are suicidal, or homicidal, they get the care they need when they need it. I think the vast majority of the American people can support and agenda composed of those features.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Thinking, Gun

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are.

  Keira Knightley

  Suicide, Important, Doe

  "Keira Knightley: ‘My battle to lead a normal life’" by Liz Hoggard, www.thetimes.co.uk. November 5, 2014.

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• It's been nineteen days since I've had a suicidal impulse. One of the things that pulls me back is I think to myself, and as a Muslim, I believe that God created everything and intended everything and here we are in this unbelievably vast universe that's billions of years old. And yet, here I am, an individual human being, in a little corner of the galaxy and planet that is remarkable in some ways and unremarkable in others. All I wish is to say that He meant for every single person who's ever lived to live. I don't necessarily understand why but that was His choice and here I am.

  Haroon Moghul

  Believe, Thinking, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course - the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

  Mitt Romney

  Goodbye, Jobs, Loss

  "Let Detroit go bankrupt". www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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• Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is especially focused on family, and I'd have hoped, therefore, that the Mormon Church would especially have celebrated how all of these people who might have been lonely and suicidal and childless are now able to lead this other life. I would have thought it would be a cause for immense celebration. Instead it has been, obviously, a cause of great concern to the Church and its leadership.

  Andrew Solomon

  Lonely, Gay, People

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• 3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.

  Roger Ebert

  Crazy, Perfectly Good, Nausea

  "Roger Ebert On Why 3D Movies Suck" by Gillian Reagan, www.businessinsider.com. April 29, 2010.

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• I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love.

  Andrew Solomon

  Moving, Self, Church

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• They tried to get me - I got them first! [Suicide.]

  Vachel Lindsay

  Suicide, Firsts

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• The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake.

  Yasser Arafat

  Military, Mistake, Arrogance

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

  Henry Miller

  Artist

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

  Mario Puzo

  War, Gambling, Television

  Mario Puzo (1977). “Inside Las Vegas”

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• Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over.

  Sean Kingston

  Beautiful, Girl, Want

  Song: Beautiful Girls

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• If life is a gift then all that belongs to life is going to be a gift. Happiness, love, meditation - all that is beautiful is going to be a gift from the holy, from the whole. You cannot deserve it in any way and you cannot force existence to make you happy, or to make you loving, or to make you meditative. That very effort is of the ego. That very effort creates misery. That very effort goes against you. That very effort has destroyed you - it is suicidal.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Beautiful, Effort

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• In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.

  Archie Shepp

  Music, Country, America

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• I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.

  Lesley Boone

  Suicide, Cake, Tea

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• So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Believe, Our World, Giving

  Brian D. McLaren (2009). “Everything Must Change: When the World's Biggest Problems and Jesus' Good News Collide”, p.270, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• No man has ever been born a Negro hater,
  a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater.
  Nature refuses to be involved in such
  suicidal practices.

  Harry Bridges

  Equality, Men, Practice

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• Each suicidal drama occurs in the mind of a unique individual.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Drama, Unique, Mind

  Edwin S. Shneidman (1998). “The Suicidal Mind”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA

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• And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.

  Plato

  Suicide, Mean, Men

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.1764, Booklassic

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• I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

  Peter Benchley

  Suicide, Hopeful, Anticipation

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• After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.

  Gunter Grass

  Games, Rivals, Belief

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• The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured - especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

  E. O. Wilson

  People, Waiting, Enemy

  "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1998.

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