Suicide Quotes

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Alice Walker

Novelist, Poet

“Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.”

Writing World Suicide

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Saint Augustine

Theologian, Philosopher

“Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?”

Children Death Suicide

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Bill Smith

Artist

“Life's too short for a funeral.”

Death Suicide

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Aristotle

Philosopher

“The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.”

Law Suicide

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Al Green

Singer, Songwriter

“Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.”

Answers Suicide Destruction

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William Faulkner

Novelist, Poet, Playwright

“Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.”

Men Home

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Author, Poet

“Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest”

Suicide Devil

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.”

Men Lying Suicide

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Thomas Aquinas

Philosopher, Theologian

“It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.”

Men Suicide Suicidal

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Scott Adams

Cartoonist

“In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.”

Hard Work Death Suicide

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Scott Frank

Screenwriter, Director

“I like to look on the bright side: Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.”

Numbers Death Suicide

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Thomas Huxley

Biologist, Anthropologist

“The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.”

Suicide Argument Guinea

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