Suicide Quotes - Page 29

• The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Teaching, Goal, Revision

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• We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself.

  Thomas Berry

  Environmental, Earth, Devastation

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.104, Crown

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• We remember the grind of the insurgency -- the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south -- your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it.

  Barack Obama

  War, Fighting, Fire

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Never thoughts of suicide, I'm too alive. But I still treat it like it's do or die.. even though dyin' isn't in the plans, but neither was makin' it and here I am

  Drake

  Death, Here I Am, Alive

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• Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

  Arnold Bennett

  Procrastination, Funny Procrastination, Plans

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• A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

  Arthur Miller

  Death, Two, People

  "The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays".

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• Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Death, Criticism, Dying

  The Good Word pt. 1, ch. 15 (1978)

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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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• A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Morning, Bus, Theologian

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• In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose of life, we would feel compelled to commit suicide. If, however, we accept that life has no purpose we would be inclined to soldier on in a cussed, stoical manner like Sisyphus, endlessly pushing his rock up a hill only to see it roll down again.

  Philip French

  Life, Death, Rocks

  "Feathered frenzy" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2005.

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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 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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• They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

  Adrienne Rich

  Death, Pain, Order

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

  Judy Collins

  Needs, Helping, Mental Health

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• Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Madness, Kind

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

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• We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Depression, Madness

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• It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Running, Thinking, Careers

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

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• There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.

  Bill Engvall

  Hunger Strike, California, Bed

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 25, 2013

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• It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.

  Michael Palin

  Baby, War, Believe

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• I've learned: When you get older, who cares? I don't mince words, I don't hold back. What are you gonna do to me? Fire me? It's been done. Threaten to commit suicide? Done. Take away my show? Done! Not invite to me to the Vanity Fair party? I've never been invited! If I ever saw the invitation, I'd use it as toilet paper.

  Joan Rivers

  Party, Fire, Vanity

  "Joan Rivers Interview: Her 6 Best One-Liners" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 12, 2013.

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• People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Thinking, Opposites

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• I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

  Elton John

  One Day, Window, Woody

  "Elton John: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Paul Gambaccini, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 1973.

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• For people considering suicide, it is bullshit. Endure the moment.

  Courtney Love

  People, Bullshit, Moments

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• I know what good morals are,
  but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.

  Tupac Shakur

  Crazy, Angel, Trying

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• I tell people, if you're thinking about suicide, all that stuff I've attempted and thought about it. If you think about it, life gets better. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

  Tyler Perry

  Moving, Thinking, Keys

  "Tyler Perry recounts childhood abuse on Web site". www.cnn.com. October 6, 2009.

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