Suicide Quotes - Page 6

• The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicidal, Men, Attention

  "The New Gods". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.

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• The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.

  Sylvia Plath

  Self Harm, Accomplishment, Body

  "Edge" l. 1 (1965)

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• When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Rights, Easy, Imminent Death

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.333, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Self Harm, Suicidal, Successful

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.36, Vintage

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• If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Nature, Humor

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.158, Vintage

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• Nine Men in Ten are Suicides.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Suicidal, Men, Would Be

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There's not too many people that don't think I'm crazy, for walking away from so much money. I'm at a restaurant with my wife, it's a nice restaurant, we're eating dinner. I look across the room, I say, 'You see this guy over here, across the room? He has $100 million.' And we're eating the same entree. So, OK, fine, I don't have $50 million or whatever it was, but say I have $10 million in the bank. The difference in lifestyle is miniscule.

  Dave Chappelle

  Crazy, Nice, Suicidal

  "Dave Chappelle Knows 'There's Not Too Many People That Don't Think I'm Crazy'" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. June 11, 2014.

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• Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it's not nothing, it's something. But it's not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.

  Dave Chappelle

  Suicidal, Giving, Choices

  "Dave Chappelle Knows 'There's Not Too Many People That Don't Think I'm Crazy'" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. June 11, 2014.

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• Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!

  George Darley

  Mean, Self, Heroism

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• For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

  Jack Osbourne

  Suicidal, Thinking, Should Have

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• And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.

  William Shakespeare

  Should Have, World, Pity

  William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.117, 1st World Publishing

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• That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

  Anderson Cooper

  Thinking, Trying, Literature

  "My brother's suicide" by Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. August 16, 2005.

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• It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Jealousy, Reason, Being Jealous

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.85, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Differences, Literature, Martyrdom

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

  Saul Bellow

  Funny, Girl, Sarcastic

  Saul Bellow (2016). “Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories”, p.170, Odyssey Editions

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• At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

  Cesare Pavese

  Death, Children, Suicidal

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.336, Transaction Publishers

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• I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help

  Aron Ralston

  Suicidal, Six Months, Done

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• If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

  Honore de Balzac

  Wall, Writing, Artist

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• There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Suicidal

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

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• To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

  Aristotle

  Sad, Pain, Men

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• It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicidal, Too Late, Killing

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suicidal, Doe, Oneself

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• There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Men, Literature, Littles

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.130, tredition

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• When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

  Nathaniel Branden

  Principles, Checks, Premises

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• But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Suicidal, Hands, Energy

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