Suicidal Quotes - Page 10

• The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Effort, Desperate

  The Defendant introduction (1901)

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• I think the human species is very suicidal.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Humans, Species

  "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• I think that's part of the whole denial and suicidal mechanism [ of the human's race] right "Oh my God, the house is on fire." You sleep through the smoke.

  Eve Ensler

  Sleep, Thinking, Fire

  "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.

  Maya Angelou

  Blow, Race, Firsts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In my 20s, I was more cynical/despairing (even though I still wrote comically), but I often sent audiences home with rather dark last moments. After a while though, I don't want to send the audience home bummed out, or distressed ... I want to see what's hopeful. I'm not overly cheery all the time, and yet I'm not suicidal either. I do think people can make choices that make their lives happier.

  Christopher Durang

  Home, Dark, Thinking

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• Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.

  James Taylor

  Long, Wife, Months

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• It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. If they did so, they couldn't be reelected.

  Jimmy Carter

  Rights, Israel, Law

  "Jimmy Carter takes on Israel’s Apartheid Policies and the Pro-Israeli Lobby in the US". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2006.

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• I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Philosophy, Bored, Design

  Letter to Alfred Galpin (27 May 1918), in "Letters to Alfred Galpin" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 18), 2003.

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• Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Next Day, People

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, June 7, 2005.

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• The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their ability. I don't need anything sharper. Otherwise, on bad days, it might easily occur to me that I could always go stand in the bathroom in front of the mirror and slit my throat. On such occasions it's nice to have the added security of needing to go downstairs and borrow a decent knife from a neighbor.

  Peter Høeg

  Nice, Bad Day, Cutting

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• It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Suicide, Lasts

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• Ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out.

  Alfonsina Storni

  Gone, Use, Favors

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• There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.

  Socrates

  Running, Men, Doors

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• I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

  Mark Lanegan

  Tough Times, Tough

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• We in Himalaya are facing a crisis of survival due to the suicidal activities being carried out in the name of development… The monstrous Tehri dam is a symbol of this… There is need for a new and long-term policy to protect the dying Himalaya. I do not want to see the death of the most sacred river of the world-the Ganga- for short-term economic gains.

  Sunderlal Bahuguna

  Names, Rivers, Long

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• There have been times when I've thought about it - but with my luck it would probably turn out to be only a temporary solution.

  Woody Allen

  Luck, Turns, Has Beens

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• My wife made me join a bridge club... I jump off next Tuesday.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Bridges

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• If I heard a girl crying help
  I would go to save her;
  But you hardly ever hear those words.
  Dear children, you must try to say
  Something when you are in need.
  Don't confuse hunger with greed;
  And don't wait until you are dead.

  Ruth Stone

  Girl, Children, Greed

  Ruth Stone (1991). “Second-hand Coat: Poems New and Selected”

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• And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Suicide, Father, Gun

  Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.557, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

  George Sewell

  Suicide, Brave, Coward

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• In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.

  William Bernbach

  Suicide, Marketing, Different

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• We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

  B. C. Forbes

  Happiness, Selfishness, Enjoy

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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

  Suicide, Self Harm, Successful

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

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• It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.

  Pekka Vasala

  Running, Adequate, Hills

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• It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted some people to run the real distance and that was frustrating. So I took the pace around the second lap, which in some ways is suicidal...but I wanted the pace to be honest.

  Marla Runyan

  Running, Real, Distance

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