Suicide Quotes — Page 38

Philosopher, Writer

“Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.”

Passion Three Suicide

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Aleister Crowley

Occultist, Writer

“The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.”

Suicide Nails Skulls

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William James

Philosopher, Psychologist

“I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.”

Men Suicide

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Woody Allen

Director, Actor, Writer

“I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.”

Death Dying

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Ayn Rand

Philosopher, Novelist

“A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.”

Men Evil Suicide

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Allen West

Politician

“There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'”

Simple Suicide Tolerance

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Anais Nin

Writer, Diarist

“To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.”

Sacrifice Suicide Triumph

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Antonin Kratochvil

Photographer

“I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over.”

Country Lying Suicide

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W. Somerset Maugham

Novelist, Playwright

“Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.”

Trying Care Suicide

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William S. Burroughs

Writer

“Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.”

Suicide Punishment Method

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Author, Poet, Essayist

“No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.”

Children Taken Suicide

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Veronica Roth

Author

“Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.”

Mother Suicide Brave

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