Suicide Quotes — Page 42

Writer

“Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.”

People Heart Suicide

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George Carlin

Comedian, Actor

“Why do they bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? "Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself."”

Hurt Humorous Suicide

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Lauryn Hill

Singer, Songwriter

“Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.”

Heart Suicide

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Kenneth Rand

Artist

“And should men name me dead, I beg ye, say "Nay, he but wearied here, and went away.”

Men Names

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Politician, Philosopher, Orator

“The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.”

World Suicide Divinity

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Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

“Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!”

People Writing Suicide

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Ken Ono

Mathematician

“With suicide, it's a strange thing in Japanese culture. It's acceptable. My parents would have been devastated if my attempt had been successful, but they would have somehow accepted it.”

Successful Parent Suicide

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.”

Men Suicide Loyalty

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.”

Heaven Earth Suicide

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.”

Waiting Suicide Coward

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“Syria is descending into suicide. It's a horror story and getting worse and worse. There's no bright spot on the horizon. What will probably happen, if this continues, is that Syria will be partitioned into probably three regions; a Kurdish region - which is already forming - that could pull out and join in some fashion the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, maybe with some kind of deal with Turkey.”

Kind Fashion Suicide

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers.”

Two Tree Suicide

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