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• If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?

  Sue Rodriguez

  Life, Death, Giving

  Lisa Hobbs Birnie, Sue Rodriguez (1994). “Uncommon will: the death and life of Sue Rodriguez”

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• Suicide is no solution. Keep fighting.

  Hayley Williams

  Fighting, Solutions

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• Suicide kills two people.

  Arthur Miller

  Suicidal, Two, People

  After the Fall act 2 (1964)

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• The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place

  Paul Watzlawick

  Doe, Conclusion, Right Place

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• People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.

  Mao Zedong

  People, Trying, China

  "Mao's Last Revolution". Book by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, 2006.

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• Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Inspirational, People, Committing Suicide

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Correction: A Novel”, p.244, Vintage

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• To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

  Aristotle

  Running, Suicidal, Brave

  Nicomachean Ethics 3

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• Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting for us ahead, and the death that comes pursuing from behind.... Once you are free at least from the death that comes pursuing you, you can relax and enjoy life as you go along.

  Kobo Abe

  Mean, Enjoy Life, Waiting

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• I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

  Ned Vizzini

  Depression, Lying, Thinking

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• I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Motivational, Daughter

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• All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

  Albert Camus

  Health, Men, Suicidal Thoughts

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• It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web of reasons; and, of course, such complexity is warranted. No one illness or event causes suicide; and certainly no one knows all, or perhaps even most, of the motivations behind the killing of the self. But psychopathology is almost always there, and its deadliness is fierce. Love, success, and friendship are not always enough to counter the pain and destructiveness of severe mental illness

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Pain, Motivation, Self

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Feb 18, 2013

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• The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Suicidal, Mean, Chance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.

  June Hunt

  Pain, Way, Desperate

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• I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

  George Carlin

  Commit, Ifs

  "George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Fire, Order

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.142, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• There appear to be many people who chose to go crazy (or become alcoholics, addicts, criminals, suicides) rather than have to bear the pain and ambiguity of a life situation that they have decided that they cannot stand. (98)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Pain, Crazy, People

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• There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Suicidal

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)

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• Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are

  Mark Nepo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicidal Thoughts

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.18, Conari Press

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• Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Finals, Way, Lasts

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• Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Night, Thinking, Helping

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• I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.

  David Levithan

  Suicidal, Killing, Torn

  David Levithan (2015). “Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story”, p.148, Penguin

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• That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Heart, Bars, Chill

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.

  Richard Bach

  Suicidal, Starting Over, Creative

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• I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.

  Bob Dylan

  Hate, Loving You, Weakness

  Song: Dirge, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

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