Suicidal Quotes - Page 12

• Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Men, Way

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• All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Perfect, Tough, Situation

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• I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

  William James

  Suicide, Men, Educated

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

  Khalil Gibran

  Suicide, Men, Self

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

  Audre Lorde

  Children, Dragons, Justice

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.74, Crossing Press

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• There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

  Rebecca West

  Saws, Unending, Dies

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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• Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.

  Emile Durkheim

  Suicide, Spring, Tolerance

  Suicide: A Study in Sociology bk. 3, ch. 3 (1897) (translation by John A. Spaulding and George Simpson)

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• Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything about it. Was there a psychological term for that? Was there a disease that involved an intense desire to die, but no will to go through with it? Couldn't talk and thoughts of suicide be considered a whole malady of their own, a special subcategory of depression in which the loss of a will to live has not quite been displaced by a determination to die?

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Suicide, Determination, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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

  Suicide, Hands, Energy

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• When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Suicide, Monday, Laughing

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.80, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.

  Roger Ebert

  Crazy, Perfectly Good, Nausea

  "Roger Ebert On Why 3D Movies Suck" by Gillian Reagan, www.businessinsider.com. April 29, 2010.

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• For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

  Henry Miller

  Artist

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• There is no madder nation than Japan. ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Country, Suicide, Glasses

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• If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course - the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

  Mitt Romney

  Goodbye, Jobs, Loss

  "Let Detroit go bankrupt". www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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• You don't really think that things will ever get better, but they do. People always ask me, "What would you say to gay teen youth that are suicidal, or someone who is addicted right now?," and it's hard to say with words that things will change, but they do.

  Patty Schemel

  Gay, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe what I call common sense gun reform. Plus, a revolution in mental health, making sure that if people are having a nervous breakdown, or are suicidal, or homicidal, they get the care they need when they need it. I think the vast majority of the American people can support and agenda composed of those features.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Thinking, Gun

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

  Robert Nozick

  Suicide, Children, Philosophical

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• It's been nineteen days since I've had a suicidal impulse. One of the things that pulls me back is I think to myself, and as a Muslim, I believe that God created everything and intended everything and here we are in this unbelievably vast universe that's billions of years old. And yet, here I am, an individual human being, in a little corner of the galaxy and planet that is remarkable in some ways and unremarkable in others. All I wish is to say that He meant for every single person who's ever lived to live. I don't necessarily understand why but that was His choice and here I am.

  Haroon Moghul

  Believe, Thinking, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• No man has ever been born a Negro hater,
  a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater.
  Nature refuses to be involved in such
  suicidal practices.

  Harry Bridges

  Equality, Men, Practice

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• So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Believe, Our World, Giving

  Brian D. McLaren (2009). “Everything Must Change: When the World's Biggest Problems and Jesus' Good News Collide”, p.270, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If life is a gift then all that belongs to life is going to be a gift. Happiness, love, meditation - all that is beautiful is going to be a gift from the holy, from the whole. You cannot deserve it in any way and you cannot force existence to make you happy, or to make you loving, or to make you meditative. That very effort is of the ego. That very effort creates misery. That very effort goes against you. That very effort has destroyed you - it is suicidal.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Beautiful, Effort

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• Happiness is the death of the ego. If you want to remain a separate entity from existence as almost everybody is trying to do, you will be afraid of being blissful, cheerful. You will feel guilty in being blissful. You will feel suicidal because you are committing suicide on the psychological level, on the level of the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Suicide, Ego, Cheerful

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• Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over.

  Sean Kingston

  Beautiful, Girl, Want

  Song: Beautiful Girls

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• Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.

  Lauryn Hill

  Suicide, Heart, Desire

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