Suicide Quotes - Page 21

• Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.

  Joseph Parker

  Sad, Giving Up, Hard Times

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• Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wife, Acquiescence, Opinion

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 5 (1916)

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• To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

  Mason Cooley

  Wrong Person, Persons

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• The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Alive, Reputation, Consideration

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• Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

  Franz Kafka

  Mean, Understanding, Levels

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• "State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wicked, Poison, Drink

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• For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Sex, Body, Satisfaction

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• A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

  Gloria Steinem

  Economic Value, Growth, Environmental

  Gloria Steinem (1995). “Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.

  June Jordan

  America, Black, Identity

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?

  Herman Melville

  Men, Soul, World

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2511, Delphi Classics

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• Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.

  Antoinette Perry

  Bridges, Circles, Dining

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• I have a suicide impulse.

  Hal Holbrook

  Impulse

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• I don't persuade to suicide.

  Jack Kevorkian

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• I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

  Judd Nelson

  Light, Shows

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• The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

  George Carey

  Bombers, Plight, Terrible

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". Interview with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

  Anne Stevenson

  Sorry, Half, Months

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• I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.

  Barry Sheene

  Racing, Missions

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• The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Differences, Counterparts, Seekers

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• But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that.

  Alan Vega

  Fingerprints, Courses, Knows

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• Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.

  Lexa Doig

  Cute, Names, Coats

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• I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

  Robert Quine

  Saws

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• Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

  Robert Nozick

  Children, Philosophical, Suicidal

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• Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Oregon, Unions, States

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• No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Law, Giving, Choices

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• If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

  Josef Albers

  Way, Commit, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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