Suicide Quotes - Page 20

• You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Moving, Mind, Trying

  Josephine Humphreys (2000). “Dreams of Sleep”, p.122, Penguin

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• What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.

  Robert Pape

  Military, Goal, Democracy

  Robert Pape (2005). “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism”, p.4, Random House

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• The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective.

  Robert Pape

  Facts, Driven, Terrorist

  "The Logic of Suicide Terrorism". Interview with Scott McConnell, www.globalpolicy.org. July 18, 2005.

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• Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in one’s neighbor, in the existence of one’s neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves.

  Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

  Mean, Reality, Men

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• Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What's next, a health care plan?

  Jay Leno

  Dollars, Bombers, Hussein

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• One girl, actually, in the UK — it was a really small show in Wales — a girl came up to me and said that because of one of my songs she was still alive. She’d decided not to commit suicide. It was a really emotional moment.

  Lights

  Girl, Song, Emotional

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• Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work.

  Sharif Abdullah

  Vote, No Confidence, Extremes

  Sharif M. Abdullah (1999). “Creating a World That Works for All”, p.63, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• ObamaCare is not a 'trainwreck,' it is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate, so we agree under duress to accept big government.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Hurt, Obamacare, Government

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• And finally, I just felt it was crucial for some of us in the hip hop community to speak up on the issues of teen suicide, bullying, and the overall anti-homosexual sentiment that exist within hip hop culture. I felt so strongly about these issues and this song that I had to do a video that would command some attention, even if it makes some viewers uncomfortable.

  MURS

  Song, Bullying, Issues

  "Murs’ ‘Animal Style’ Video: Rapper Supports Gay Rights, Kisses A Man In New Clip" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2012.

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• In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

  Gary Cherone

  Philosophy, Writing, Fate

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• Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

  Roddy Doyle

  Photograph, Favourite, Desks

  "Roddy Doyle's rules for writers". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

  Matthieu Ricard

  Tanks, Bombs, Weak

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• If you are in here tonight and you have never contemplated suicide…you've never truly been in love. If you're in here tonight and you have never contemplated murder…you've never been divorced.

  Christopher

  Tonight, Murder, Divorced

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• The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being? Christianity is the idea that you are so abhorrent that God had to kill himself. He had to embody the human form and send himself on a bizarre suicide mission just to revoke the disgustingness of the humans he created. I balk at suggestions that these ideas dictate to the concepts of morality and love.

  Trevor Treharne

  Jesus, Atheist, Sacrifice

  Trevor Treharne (2012). “How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism”, p.188, Universal-Publishers

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• Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Passion, Metaphysical

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.63, Destiny Image Publishers

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• The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

  Charles Handy

  Giving, Risk, Important

  Charles Handy (2011). “The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future”, p.219, Random House

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• Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.

  Lauryn Hill

  Heart, Suicidal, Desire

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

  Keira Knightley

  Suicidal, 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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• I'm driven. I have the opportunity to change people's lives.

  Thomas Menino

  Suicidal, Opportunity, People

  "Thomas M. Menino, Mayor Who Led Boston's Renaissance, Is Dead at 71" by Katharine Q. Seelye, www.nytimes.com. October 30, 2014.

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• Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicidal, Solitary Life, Meditation Practice

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• I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

  Antonin Artaud

  Morning, Science, Want

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• Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Dog, Baby, Cat

  Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt

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• With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for patients suffering 'intolerable health problems.'

  Arthur Caplan

  Fate, Science, Thinking

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• I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No matter how much mutilation or pain. But he looked away, at me. He pulled my face down and pressed my lips against his like he was almost trying to suffocate us both.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sad, Pain, Trying

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• If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

  Clifford Odets

  Sad, Grief, Sleep

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