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• After a long, labored sigh, I said, “She was really happy when I got there. I’m pretty sure she was suicidal when I left.” “You do have that effect on people.

  Darynda Jones

  Long, People, Said

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• Didn't we talk about this?" "HAIL!" "That isn't an answer." I planted my hands on my hips. "Was there a reason for shoving the gummy bears off the counter? Did they tell you they were suicidal? On second thought," I raised a hand, palm out, "don't answer that. If the candy is talking, I don't want to know.

  Mira Grant

  Hands, Talking, Want

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• Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Risk, Needs, Serious

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.93, Scholastic Inc.

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• In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet.

  William L. Shirer

  War, Long, Age

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• I have a plan.” He groaned. “I was afraid of that.” “My plans are not terrible.” “Isabelle’s plans are terrible.” He pointed a finger at her. “Your plans are suicidal. At best.” She sat back, her arms crossed over her chest. “Do you want to hear it or not? You have to keep it a secret.” “I would pluck out my own eyes with a fork before I would give away your secrets,” Simon said, then looked anxious. “Wait a second. Do you think that’s likely to be required?

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Thinking, Giving

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• No' is a magical word," he told her. "Here's how it goes. You say, 'Simon, I have an insane, suicidal plan. Would you like to help me carry it out?' And I say, "Why, no.

  Cassandra Clare

  Insane, Helping, Help Me

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of myself - and Malcolm was considered to be a "racist in reverse." This formulation, in terms of power - and power is the arena in which racism is acted out - means absolutely nothing: it may even be described as a cowardly formulation. The powerless, by definition, can never be "racists," for they can never make the world pay for what they feel or fear except by the suicidal endeavor which makes them fanatics or revolutionaries, or both.

  James A. Baldwin

  Mean, Ideas, Racism

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• Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

  Rajneesh

  Gratitude, Nature, Stars

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• Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Heart, Winning, Mind

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• I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body, a representation, to put it outside himself. A need to convert inner torment into some outward tangible wound that all could see. It was almost as though suicide were a last-ditch effort at exorcism, in which the person sacrificed his life in order that the devil inside might die.

  Phillip Lopate

  Suicide, Pain, Order

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• Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.

  Edward Hoagland

  Cancer, Heart, Thinking

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.29, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.

  Edward Hoagland

  Children, Would Be, World

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.35, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The first time it happened I was ten.
  It was an accident.
  
  The second time I meant
  To last it out and not come back at all.
  I rocked shut
  
  As a seashell.
  They had to call and call
  And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
  
  Dying
  Is an art, like everything else.
  I do it exceptionally well.
  
  I do it so it feels like hell.
  I do it so it feels real.
  I guess you could say I've a call.

  Sylvia Plath

  Art, Real, Dying

  "Lady Lazarus" l. 43 (1963)

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• I wish that I was dead. Oh, they'll be sorry then.
  I hate them and I'll kill myself tomorrow.
  I want to die. I hate them, hate them. Hate.

  Vernon Scannell

  Sorry, Hate, Wish

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• How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

  Jules Renard

  People, Photograph, Wanted

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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

  Suicide, 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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• If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

  Lorrie Moore

  Killing Yourself, Known, Ifs

  Lorrie Moore (2014). “Bark”, p.117, Faber & Faber

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• Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the too-strong love for his mother, the too-weak love for his suicidal father, and the all-consuming love of anonymous sexual encounters. Pointed and acute, this story tells of the narrator's many betrayals of others and their many betrayals of him. It exists in an uncomfortable moral space where the humor of terrible things sometimes outweighs, but never obscures, their poignancy.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mother, Strong, Betrayal

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• Hannah Arendt in her study of totalitarianism borrowed from Immanuel Kant the concept of radical evil, of evil that's so evil that in the end it destroys itself, it's so committed to evil and it's so committed to hatred and cruelty that it becomes suicidal. My definition of it is the surplus value that's generated by totalitarianism. It means you do more violence, more cruelty than you absolutely have to to stay in power.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mean, Evil, Hatred

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Our society is so much about fidelity being this thing that's sacred, and people are miserable. They're suicidal. It brings more depression than anything else on earth, probably. Sorry to say that, guys.

  Julie Delpy

  Sorry, People, Guy

  "The Before Midnight Team: Reunion of the Year 2013". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. December 5, 2013.

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• I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.

  Courtney Love

  Years, Answers, Littles

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• However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

  Graham Greene

  Suicide, Men, Thinking

  "The Comedians". Book by Graham Greene. Part 1, Chapter 4, Section 1, 1966.

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• I find, then, I am but a bad anatomist.

  Wolfe Tone

  Theobald Wolfe Tone, T. W. Moody, R.B. McDowell, C. J. Woods (2007). “The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to November 1798)”, p.391, Oxford University Press

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• A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet
  How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay!
  The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments
  (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret)
  Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.

  Lord Byron

  Suicide, Dream, Regret

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• People always say, "You played such a strong character." I remember someone said that to me when I played a role in Shame, and she was a suicidal mess. I said, "She's not strong at all; she's incredibly weak." But "strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

  Carey Mulligan

  Strong, Real, Believe

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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