Suicide Quotes - Page 15

• Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Health, Mind, Attention

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.240

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• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Blessing, Boredom

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• We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that just in the last two years more than 20 planets have been identified outside our solar system that seem to be far enough away from their suns - - and dense enough - - that they might be able to support some form of life. So it makes it increasing less likely that we're alone. But if we were visited someday, I wouldn't be surprised.

  William J. Clinton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Stars

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• Attachment is the strongest block to realization.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Inspirational, Motivational, Block

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• Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.

  Andy Whitfield

  Inspirational, Motivational, Healthy

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• In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.

  Judith Stone

  New York, Women, Suicidal

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• Dyin' ain't much of a livin'.

  Josey Wales

  Death

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• One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life', which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.

  Frank Darabont

  Christmas, Interesting, Choices

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 28, 2010.

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• And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.

  Plato

  Suicidal, Mean, Men

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.1764, Booklassic

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• Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is There's no-one else to blame.

  Sia Furler

  Hurt, Self Harm, Today

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• ID cards do not tell the police who is about to commit a suicide bombing.

  John Wadham

  Police, Cards, Terrorism

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• What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

  Zane Grey

  Life, Dark, Yield

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• I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

  Barbara Lee

  Soldier, Ptsd, Incidents

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• The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religion, Atheism, Pills

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, March 04, 1831.

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• Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.

  Herbert Hoover

  Spiritual, Lying, Army

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• Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

  Dale Carnegie

  Giving Up, Writing, Character

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.21, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Imitation can be commercial suicide.

  William Bernbach

  Design, Imitation

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• Money is not worth dying for. I know, because years ago, while nearly a million dollars in debt, suicide was an option. Rather than run, rich dad suggested I write down all the mistakes I made and then seek help. If I made accounting mistakes, I talked to an accountant. If there was a legal mistake, I talked to an attorney. That was my way out. That is how I got smarter.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Running

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• To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Suicidal, Enemy, Doe

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• The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Gun, Climate, Roulette

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what’s gone wrong.

  Nigel Farage

  Men, Years, Greek

  "On the edge of social breakdown". UK Independence Party Website, May 31, 2012.

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• Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

  Franz Liszt

  Sacrifice, Long, Bitterness

  Adrian Williams, Franz Liszt (1990). “Portrait of Liszt: by himself and his contemporaries”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I'll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill.

  John Boehner

  Minimum Wage, Bills, Vote

  Interview with Molly K. Hooper and Bob Cusack, thehill.com. February 21, 2014.

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• The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

  Edward Abbey

  Sex, Availability, Alcohol

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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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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