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• There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Ignorance, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.162, Harvard University Press

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• Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.

  Jodi Picoult

  Teenager, Gay, Wish

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• What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.

  Alexander Haig

  Children, Teaching, Bombers

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• One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing.

  Pattie Mallette

  Teenager, Years, Scary

  "Justin Bieber's Mom Has Her Own Story To Tell". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

  Silvan Shalom

  Numbers, Bombers, Fence

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• Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

  Saddam Hussein

  Age, Baghdad, Hussein

  2003 Speech on the anniversary of the Gulf War, 17 Jan.

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• The longest suicide note in history.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Notes, Labour Party, Suicide Note

  Describing the Labour Party's 'New Hope for Britain' (1983), in Denis Healey 'The Time of My Life' (1989) ch. 23

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• If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

  George Henry Borrow

  Suicidal, Sight, Lost

  Lavengro Ch. XXIII

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• Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

  Peter Steele

  Humor, Suicidal, Darkness

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• The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Suicidal, Office, Effort

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• Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Nature, Suicidal, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 37, 1799.

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• If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

  Antonin Artaud

  Self Harm, Suicidal, Mean

  Antonin Artaud, Jack Hirschman (1963). “Artaud Anthology”, p.56, City Lights Books

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• When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. ‘This is my last experiment,’ wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. ‘If there is any eternal torment worse than mine I’ll have to be shown.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicidal, Thinking, People

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.93, Vintage

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• I think that happiness is a very strange thing. And we really feel that we have a right to this happiness. But I feel like it's constantly fluctuating, and that you can make yourself happy. I think it's an outlook. Having a positive attitude probably sounds like a corny thing to say, but a positive attitude really helps, and respecting your job really helps, and having the support of your family and friends really helps.

  Leelee Sobieski

  Inspirational, Motivational, Jobs

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. April 21, 2008.

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• Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

  Aristotle

  Men, Order, Evil

  Aristotle (1871). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.74

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• Suicide is not a remedy

  James A. Garfield

  Remedy

  Inaugural address, 4 March (1881)

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• There is something great and terrible about suicide.

  Honore de Balzac

  Terrible

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.13, The Floating Press

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• Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop.

  Osamu Dazai

  Men, Offering, Expression

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.159, New Directions Publishing

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• Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophy, Suicidal, Judging

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

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• Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

  George Sanders

  Sweet, Good Luck, Long

  "Oscars: The Sad Stories of 9 Acting Nominees Who Committed Suicide" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 26, 2014.

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• Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Government, Moral

  Address at the Fiftieth Annual NAACP Convention, July 17, 1959.

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• Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  "What Hemingway Would Think of the Internet", July 2, 2011.

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• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Civil War, Answers

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.32, Penguin

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• Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

  Weihui Zhou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Crazy

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