Suicide Quotes - Page 24

• Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals.

  David Duke

  Psychosis, Ku Klux Klan, Suffering

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• Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

  Brendan Behan

  Determination, Men, Giving

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• Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Moving, Atoms, Bombs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.

  Steve Albini

  Unique, Views, Long

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• Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Dream, Good Life, Notes

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.

  John F. Kennedy

  Commit, Sane

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• Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

  Walter Lippmann

  Rights, Names, Democracy

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Complaining, World

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

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• I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Law, Crooks, Break

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• It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.

  William Shakespeare

  Deeds, Ends, Shackles

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

  William Faulkner

  Home, Men, Way

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• The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  World, Divinity, Command

  "Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 30, c. 45 BC.

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• Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.

  Tom Stoppard

  Calendars, Tricks

  Tom Stoppard (1996). “Tom Stoppard: Plays”

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• We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.

  Philip James Bailey

  Hands, Makers, Pluck

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• If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

  Robin Williams

  Remember, Problem, Reach Out

  "Fictional character: Lance Clayton". "World's Greatest Dad", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Artist, Men, Pieces

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.53, Dial Press

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• Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Politics, Murder

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• How many of those dead animals you see on the highway are suicides?

  Dennis Miller

  Animal, Highways

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• Better to die, and sleep
  The never-waking sleep, than linger on
  And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

  Sophocles

  Sleep, Soul, Gone

  Sophocles, “Chorus From Ajax”

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• When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it.

  John Lennon

  Drinking, Believe, Self

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• The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother and brother had not been there I would have made no move to jump.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Brother, Moving

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.138, Faber & Faber

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• Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Crazy, Sorrow, Breathe

  'The Two Voices' (1842) st. 132

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• (Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Hell

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.359, Penguin

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• The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

  William Styron

  Self, People, Cost

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

  Cyril Connolly

  Responsible

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