Suicide Quotes - Page 19

• There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?

  Auberon Waugh

  Boys, Hands, Long

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• To be bored to death is a form of suicide.

  Frederick Buechner

  Bored, Form, Bored To Death

  Frederick Buechner (1988). “Whistling in the dark: an ABC theologized”, Harpercollins

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• We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot.

  Sumner Redstone

  Thinking, Creative, Cost

  "Overcoming 'Creative Suicide': What's Next for Tom Cruise?" by Buck Wolf, abcnews.go.com. August 23, 2006.

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• Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

  Henri Barbusse

  Army, Two, Committing Suicide

  Henri Barbusse (1929). “Under Fire: The Story of a Squad”, p.8, Lulu.com

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• Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.

  James Burnham

  Liberalism, Ideology, Western

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• We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

  Bruce Sterling

  Class, People, Guy

  "Inside the Military-Entertainment Complex". Interview with Krystian Woznicki, www.heise.de. June 16, 2002.

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• In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, “Get back to who you were meant to be.”

  Monica Drake

  Skins, Pulse, Acupuncture

  Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.47, Hawthorne Books

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• A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Growing Up, People, Bombers

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• I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

  Story Musgrave

  Abuse, Dysfunctional Family, Committed

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the logic of the madhouse, a recipe for collective suicide. We dont want a global suicide pact. We want a global survival pact

  Mohamed Nasheed

  Country, Survival, Climate

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• Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

  Friedrich List

  Letting Go, Fall, Ruins

  Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin “Schriften, reden, briefe ...”

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• It’s, it’s like I’m in the fourth dimension and somebody is asking me to describe it verbally and that’s what the fourth dimension is all about, is no words, no symbols, no images, all pure, real energy and vibrations. And, and if I thought about how cruel of a world this is, I would probably just commit suicide after a while, if that was what I spent my energy thinking about. I would definitely not have any strength left to create music.

  John Frusciante

  Real, Thinking, Energy

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• I'll be your crying shoulder, I'll be love's suicide, I'll be better when I'm older, I'll be the greatest fan of your life.

  Edwin McCain

  Love, Fans, Cry

  Song: I'LL BE Album 'Misguided Roses'

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• I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

  Spalding Gray

  Mother, Waiting, Age

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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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• I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

  Pierre Salinger

  Son, Men, Two

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• We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live

  Peter McWilliams

  Exercise, Animal, Laughing

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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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• 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

  Determination, Pain, Suicidal

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

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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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