Suicide Quotes - Page 25

• When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

  Cyril Connolly

  Creative, Despair, Purpose

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• One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.

  Lewis Mumford

  Betrayal, Errors, Infidelity

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Comedian

  Lawrence Durrell (2015). “The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx”, p.199, Faber & Faber

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• Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

  John Churton Collins

  Opportunity, Murder, Repentance

  Life and Memoirs of John Churton Collins Appendix VII (quoted by L. C. Collins)

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• America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.

  Thomas McGuane

  Running, Two, America

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• A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of them illustrate a collection of gruesome stories, murders and suicides which contrast with the images used. There is a contrast between the message carried by the text and that suppressed by the illustration.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Illustration, Magazines

  Gerhard Richter, Sean Rainbird, Tate Gallery (1991). “Gerhard Richter”, Tate Gallery Publication

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• Talk about cheap - on Christmas Eve, my neighbour shoots off three blanks and tells his kids Santa Claus just committed suicide.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Kids, Three

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• ... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Might, Crisis, Contemplating

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A Cambridge lady, hearing of the latest Suicide, said to her friend, turning off TV for tea, "Well, my dear, doesn't it seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?"

  Richard Eberhart

  Littles, Invited, Havens

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• Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

  Hans Selye

  Stress, Heart, Frustration

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• I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.

  Larry Kramer

  School, Gay, Yale

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• For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

  James Buchan

  Giving, Victory, East

  "Inside the mind of a terrorist". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2001.

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• It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

  Craig Reucassel

  Islamic, Movement, Odd

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• When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Boys, Narrative Voice, Able

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• Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

  Andrew Gross

  Real, Kids, Eye

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• In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

  Chuck Grassley

  Apology, Cases, Commit

  "Row over AIG bonuses threatens Obama's economic plans" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2009.

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• It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Unique, Thinking, Would Be

  "Matthew Gray Gubler: I’d rather play a Chipmunk than Othello!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 31, 2010.

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• Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Physicians, Use, Euthanasia

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• Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Technology, Physicians, Needs

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• Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Doctors, Ethical Issues, Years

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• Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Death, Baby, Rip

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• I'm on the verge of suicide, so what's murder?

  Bushwick Bill

  Evil, Murder, Verge

  Song: Wha Cha Gonna Do?, Album: Phantom of the Rapra

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• Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump.

  Frank Zappa

  Bridges, Firsts, Causes

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• Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Beautiful, Men, Hey

  Song: Lost In The Flood, Album: Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., 1973

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• I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.

  Alice Cooper

  Wrists, Appeals, Knows

  Song: The Quiet Room, Album: From The Inside, 1978

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