Suicide Quotes - Page 2

• But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Courage, Philosophy

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• Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

  Jean Racine

  Death, Despair, Lasts

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• No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

  Cesare Pavese

  Suicidal, Reason

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.11, Transaction Publishers

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• To be, or not to be, that is the question.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Creativity, Be Or Not To Be

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Cheer, Hopeless, Miserable

  "Anderson Cooper Tries Out Live Format With Jack 'Dr. Death' Kevorkian". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.businessinsider.com. April 16, 2010.

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• If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Funny Love, Wise

  "The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas".

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• Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

  Bill Maher

  Death, God, Suicidal

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• If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

  Louise Erdrich

  Lines, Jokes, Ifs

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• No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.

  Marc Maron

  Spiritual, Work Out, Tough

  "Q&A: Marc Maron on the Decline of Conversation, TV Stardom, Oligarchs, Self-Doubt & Cats". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 2, 2013.

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• My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

  Marlo Thomas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Father

  FaceBook post by Marlo Thomas from Jun 25, 2015

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• No one commits suicide because they want to die.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Suicidal, Want, Commit

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.68, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Stanford University, Best Job

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

  Alex Campbell

  Taken, Suicidal, Morphine

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• There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

  Cyril Connolly

  Funny, Death, Fear

  The Unquiet Grave Pt II

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  Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wise

  Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.36

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• Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.

  Ashley Purdy

  Bvb, People, Black Veil Brides

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• We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Sad, Veins, Razors

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.

  Vic Fuentes

  Get Better, Doe, Prevention

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  After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Philosophical, Dying

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.268, Oxford University Press

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• I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Ideas, Solitude, Would Be

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.

  Li Ang

  People, Reason, Commit

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• Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Suicidal, Alcohol, Negative

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.11, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

  Cesare Pavese

  Fall, Way, Action

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.36, Transaction Publishers

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• You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Death, Freedom

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

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