Suicide Quotes — Page 32

Philosopher, Mathematician

“America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.”

America Land Suicide

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Bruce Springsteen

Musician, Singer-songwriter

“Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.”

Baby Death Suicide

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Victor Hugo

Novelist, Poet

“Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.”

World Ends

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.”

Way Suicide

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Bruce Springsteen

Musician, Singer-songwriter

“Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.”

Inspirational Motivational Suicide

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Anne Sexton

Poet, Author

“Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.”

Special Suicide Tools

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Anne Sexton

Poet, Author

“[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.”

Powerful Suicide Fantasy

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Wyndham Lewis

Artist and Writer

“To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.”

Love Giving Up Suicide

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Walker Percy

Author, Novelist

“They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.”

Thinking Opposites Suicide

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Saint Augustine

Theologian, Philosopher

“For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.”

Hands Suicide Suicidal

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.”

Men Ignorance Suicide

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Tracy Thompson

Author, Journalist

“I don't know when the idea of suicide first occurred to me. In some ways, it had been in the back of my mind for years. Yet, oddly, I would never have thought of it as an option. It was the perceived lack of options-the final, unacceptable solution to a grave and insoluble dilemma. I had always thought of it in the same way: If all else fails, if I have nowhere else to turn, I can do this.”

Years Suicide Suicidal

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