Suicide Quotes - Page 36

• My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Ideas, Literature, Murder

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2004). “The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition: A Romance”, p.112, Broadview Press

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• Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

  Keith Henson

  Growth, Arabia, Population

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• The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Community, Bombing

  "Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Desire, World

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.13478, Delphi Classics

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• It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

  Vanilla Ice

  I Realized, Commit

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• Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.

  Marc Jacobs

  Inspiring, Creating, Knowing

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• As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sports, Football, Player

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• My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Anxiety, Drug

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.

  Ricky Martin

  Gay, People, Trying

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• Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Weapons, Normal, Impulse

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• Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

  Jack Nicholson

  Writing, Night, Two

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• Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

  Pink

  Cutting, Two, Different

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• The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.

  John Podhoretz

  Children, Media, Middle East

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• Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

  Ezra Pound

  Latin, Long, Literature

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• On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

  Mitt Romney

  Watches, Would Be, Bombers

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2010.

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• Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  War, Thinking, Next

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• The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, People, Imagination

  "Terror Is Glamour". "Spiegel" Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.

  Richard Russo

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

  David Satcher

  Country, Different, Shapes

  "U.S. surgeon-general focuses on suicide, mental health". www.cnn.com. April 17, 1998.

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• Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.

  Hun Sen

  Surrender, Pot, Commit

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• I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.

  Brittany Snow

  Best Friend, School, Good Friend

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• AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

  Susan Sontag

  Sex, Thinking, People

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• Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

  Thomas Sowell

  Bombers, Nuclear, Unions

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• The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

  Randall Terry

  Acceptance, America, Community

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• Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

  Emile Durkheim

  Order, Hallucinations, Etc

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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