Suicide Quotes - Page 13

• I may not be in control of anything else, but I am in control of my body.

  Karen Carpenter

  Self Harm, Body, May

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• But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.

  Huey Newton

  Self, Dignity, Results

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• A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

  Marilyn Manson

  Self Harm, Drug, Dumb

  Song: Coma White

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• Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

  Jay McInerney

  Self Harm, Arms, Loathing

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• I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

  Mark Twain

  Grief, Heart, Suicidal

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.6914, Delphi Classics

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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

  Spring, Suicidal, Tolerance

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

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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

  Suicidal, Next Day, People

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

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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, Suicidal, Lasts

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• The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.

  Wu Guoguang

  Suicidal, Idealist, Commit

  "The Gate of Heavenly Peace". Frontline (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• ... I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act I no longer felt sure, but of the dignity of its intransigence I was convinced.

  Phillip Lopate

  Suicidal, Moral, Dignity

  Phillip Lopate (1991). “Against Joie De Vivre”, Holiday House

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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

  Pain, Suicidal, Order

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• God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good.

  Sylvia Plath

  Morning, Rain, Suicidal

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

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• Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

  Pliny the Elder

  Suicidal, Men, Suffering

  Natural History II

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• When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.

  Al Alvarez

  Moving, Heart, Suicidal

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Heart, Suicidal, World

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• Suicide note. "To my friends. My work is done why wait?"

  George Eastman

  Work, Suicidal, Waiting

  "Chronicles of a second African trip".

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• They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)

  Vachel Lindsay

  Suicidal, Firsts, Notes

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• I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)

  Wendy O. Williams

  Believe, Suicidal, Reflection

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• I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice.

  Lina Wertmuller

  Suicidal, Winter, Sunday

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• You really do learn by example... Especially women, sometimes we think somebody's going to rescue us, or somebody's going to teach us how to do it, when in fact we have to understand that the biggest resource we have is inside of ourselves. I know that I can count on me to take care of me. That's a very important thing to know.

  Marlo Thomas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Healthy

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• They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be. Until recently I had given into that pressure, I lost sight of who I was. I listened to opinions of people and I tried to change who I am because I thought others would accept me for it. And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.

  Selena Gomez

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sight

  "elena Gomez Inspires At 'We Day': I Lost Sight Of Who I Was". www.foxnews.com. March 27, 2014.

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• I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.

  T. H. White

  Issues, Alive, Aviation

  "England Have My Bones". Book by T. H. White, 1936.

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• The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.

  David Korten

  Goal, People, Community

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• The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Political, Honor, Foreign Policy

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “Political essays [etc., 1792-1804] Contents. Index”, p.627

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