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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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• The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suicidal, Night, Comfort

  'Jenseits von Gut und Böse' [Beyond Good and Evil] (1886) ch. 4, no. 157

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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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• By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicidal, Reality, Giving

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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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• My mom always tells me that... Nobody is going to remember you for the great basketball player you are but they will remember you for the character you have off the court and how many lives you're changed.

  Isaiah Austin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• Often really what you need is someone who will believe in you, who will encourage you to believe in yourself.

  Gail Kelly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  "News Stream" with Kristie Lu Sout, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2014.

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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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• 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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• You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

  Hilary Swank

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.

  Herman Melville

  Bird, Might, Paint

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.96, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

  Reza Aslan

  Iran, Nuclear, Moron

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• Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever reducing his characters to mouthpieces or his books to tracts. His concern was always what it is to be a human being—that is, how to be an actual *person*, someone whose life is informed by values and principles, instead of just an especially shrewd kind of self-preserving animal.

  David Foster Wallace

  Spiritual, Book, Character

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• Start-ups don't die, they commit suicide.

  Justin Kan

  Commit, Dies

  "Start-up Secrets: Tips from America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs". www.inc.com. September 28, 2009.

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