Suicide Quotes - Page 13

• The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

  Walter Benjamin

  Character, Feelings, Life Is

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.542, Harvard University Press

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• A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

  Max Lerner

  Mean, Technology, World Government

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• There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Believe, Self Harm

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• For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks - accidentally - and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you're alive.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Morning, Self Harm, Cutting

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• One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and closets for the night. In the dark she had made a loop and tried to pull it tight around her throat. But always just as the air stopped coming and she felt the rushing grow louder in her ears, her hands would slacken and let go, and she would lie there panting for breath, cursing the dumb instinct in her body that fought to go on living

  Sylvia Plath

  Letting Go, Lying, Self Harm

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• You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the flesh. A feeling like all the surfaces inside you have been rubbed raw. A voice in your head - no, not voices, not like hearing voices, nothing that crazy, just your own inner voice, the one that says 'Turn left at the corner' or 'Don't forget to stop at the post office,' only now it's saying, 'I hate myself.' It's saying, 'I want to die.'

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Hate, Crazy, Self Harm

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• 'This' pain I can see it but I can't feel it It haunts me When I cut myself I can see where the pain is coming from and watch it heal And I can easily care for it 'This' pain doesn't have a specific place It moves around and creeps into strange places.

  Melanie

  Pain, Moving, Self Harm

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• It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know, I just want to hide or scream or bleed or something, and...all that...

  Neil Gaiman

  Self Harm, Bad Day, Want

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• I may not be in control of anything else, but I am in control of my body.

  Karen Carpenter

  Self Harm, Body, May

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• They'll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today.

  Marilyn Manson

  Self Harm, Cutting, Today

  Song: The Fight Song

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• Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the blood rushes out happily in the warm water as if kin to it, the same tender substance. Rising a new person transformed with an icy sense of error I go to the sink and turn on cold water which is not friendly to blood. The cut is deeper than imagined.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mistake, Self Harm, Cutting

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• got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.

  Tori Amos

  Self Harm, Boys, Razors

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• Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

  Anne Sexton

  Self Harm, Trying, Occupation

  Anne Sexton, “The Addict”

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• i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes 'till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.

  Bjork

  Self Harm, Eye, Rocks

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• Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

  David Bowie

  Self Harm, Insanity, Razors

  Song: Young Americans

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• Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

  Jay McInerney

  Self Harm, Arms, Loathing

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• There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

  Karl Marx

  Pain, Self Harm, Suffering

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1993). “Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83”, International Pub

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• A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

  Marilyn Manson

  Self Harm, Drug, Dumb

  Song: Coma White

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• For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by the society. It will give you a Nobel prize and it will give you many honours; it will do everything to make you feel great, if you can fulfil one condition: if you are obedient, obedient like a robot, then all respect is for you. Then the society will make you a great hero, but there will be no grace, no beauty, no freedom, no truth, no being; you have committed a real suicide.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Hero, Giving

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• First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules. And the idea of using a controlled substance to end somebody's life is something I don't agree with. I can see the idea of using controlled substances to ease somebody's pain. That makes sense.

  George W. Bush

  Pain, Believe, Government

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• I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out of it, and they're sick and they spring back, they spring back and forth...If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

  Charles Bukowski

  Spring, Drinking, Wine

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• Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.

  Ronald Reagan

  Gun, Average, Years

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• Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Government, Age

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• This ego has all the desires, ambitions, wants to be always on the top of everything. You are exploited by this ego. And this never allows you even a glimpse of your real authentic self, and your life is there, in your authenticity. Hence, this ego only produces misery, suffering, fighting, frustration, madness, suicide, murder - all kinds of crime.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Ambition, Fighting

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• Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.

  Richard Winters

  Death, Dying, Problem

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