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• To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Heart

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Civilization, Murder, Dies

  "A Time of Troubles" by S. Michael Craven, www.christianpost.com. June 29, 2011.

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• All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

  Alfred Adler

  Children, Failure, Criminals

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  Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

  John Adams

  Freedom, Suicidal, Democracies Have

  Letter from John Adams to John Taylor, 15 Apr. 1814

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• Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sleep, Sea, Steps

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.188

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• There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.

  Dave Navarro

  Funny, Depression, Hope

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

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• We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Quitting, Permission

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• Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

  Robert Harris

  Feelings, Guilty, Feeling Guilty

  Robert Harris (2008). “The Ghost”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.

  Walker Percy

  Thinking, Opposites, Two

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.84, Open Road Media

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• Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Death, Self Harm

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.145

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• It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suicidal, Night, Thinking

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• Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Years, Trying

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  Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Care, Simply Love, Suicidal Thoughts

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  Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

  Tori Amos

  Inspirational, Motivational, Healing

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• There are many ways to create economic suicide on a national level. The major way through history has been through indebting the economy. Debt always expands to reach a point where it cannot be paid by a large swathe of the economy. This is the point where austerity is imposed and ownership of wealth polarizes between the One Percent and the 99 Percent.

  Michael Hudson

  Wealth, Economic, Economy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Grief, Perspective, Guilt

  Stanley Hauerwas (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.591, Duke University Press

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• If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.

  Philip Massinger

  Reputation, Courses, Ifs

  Philip Massinger, John Philip Kemble (1814). “A New Way to pay Old Debts. A comedy in five acts”, p.24

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• I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.

  Judy Collins

  Cancer, Thinking, Years

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• Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Nature, Suicidal, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

  Thomas Szasz

  Respect, Suicidal, Doe

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Be Or Not To Be

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• Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.36, BookBaby

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• Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Political, Politics

  Letter to Bernard Baruch, August 19, 1916.

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• Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
  My love, you are in my heart.
  It was preordained we should part
  And be reunited by and by.
  Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
  Let's have no sadness - furrowed brow.
  There's nothing new in dying now
  Though living is no newer.

  Sergei Yesenin

  Goodbye, Love You, Suicidal

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• Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hero, Suicidal, Facts

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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