Suicide Quotes - Page 35

• Ironically, though our society of affluence brings safety and stability, it doesn't bring psychological health. As wealth goes up, suicide and depression rates tend to go up. I read one study that compared women in North America with women in Nigeria, and the group with the highest rates of depression was urban North American women, which is the wealthiest. Now, there are obviously huge stresses that come with poverty, but the poorer the society, the more collaborative people have to be.

  Sebastian Junger

  Stress, People, Safety

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

  Henry Adams

  Science, Race, World

  "The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1-3: 1858-1892".

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• The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

  Theodor Adorno

  Sad, Intention, Our Time

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.141, Verso

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• I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

  Antonin Artaud

  Time, Morning, Cutting

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

  Emilie Autumn

  Depression, Inevitable Death, Honor

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• I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

  Travis Barker

  Band, Machines, Detroit

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• Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.

  Charles Barkley

  League, Goes On, Strikes

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• Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

  Robert Benchley

  Death, Men, Feelings

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, Glendower Media

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• You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Death, Hilarious

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

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• Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humor, Literature

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• Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.

  James Buchan

  War, Struggle, Suicidal

  "A history of suicide killers" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2001.

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• Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

  Octavia Butler

  Jesus, Heaven, Alive

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• I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

  George Carlin

  Death, Humorous, Stupid People

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

  Rosanne Cash

  Reading, People, Sick

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• I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Looks, May

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.233, Wildside Press LLC

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• For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

  Judy Collins

  Recovery, Fighting, Criminals

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• Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

  Robert Crumb

  Commitment, People, Substance

  "'When I was four, I knew I was weird'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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• I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

  Everett Dirksen

  Country, Want, Bills

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• The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

  Havelock Ellis

  Suicidal, Mean, Civilization

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.

  Paul Engle

  Tragedy, Battle, Happy Marriage

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• I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Block, War, Order

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• Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you're never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don't warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.

  Tim Ferriss

  Media, Two, People

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• Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

  Jean Genet

  Suicidal, Fascination, Lines

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

  Ryan Gosling

  Fun, Thinking, Ideas

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• The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Eccentric, Brilliant, Poet

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