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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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• If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

  Robin Williams

  Remember, Problem, Reach Out

  "Fictional character: Lance Clayton". "World's Greatest Dad", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Artist, Men, Pieces

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.53, Dial Press

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• Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Politics, Murder

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• How many of those dead animals you see on the highway are suicides?

  Dennis Miller

  Animal, Highways

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• Better to die, and sleep
  The never-waking sleep, than linger on
  And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

  Sophocles

  Sleep, Soul, Gone

  Sophocles, “Chorus From Ajax”

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• When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it.

  John Lennon

  Drinking, Believe, Self

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• The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother and brother had not been there I would have made no move to jump.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Brother, Moving

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.138, Faber & Faber

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• Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Crazy, Sorrow, Breathe

  'The Two Voices' (1842) st. 132

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• (Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Hell

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.359, Penguin

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• The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

  William Styron

  Self, People, Cost

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

  Cyril Connolly

  Responsible

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• When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

  Cyril Connolly

  Creative, Despair, Purpose

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• One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.

  Lewis Mumford

  Betrayal, Errors, Infidelity

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Comedian

  Lawrence Durrell (2015). “The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx”, p.199, Faber & Faber

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• Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

  John Churton Collins

  Opportunity, Murder, Repentance

  Life and Memoirs of John Churton Collins Appendix VII (quoted by L. C. Collins)

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• We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.

  Philip James Bailey

  Hands, Makers, Pluck

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• The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result

  Emile Durkheim

  Negative, Victim, Results

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

  Camille Paglia

  Thinking, Drug Use, Choices

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.7, Vintage

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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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• Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  America, Bipolar, Despair

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• I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Bipolar, Optimist, Temperament

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.309, Vintage

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