Suicide Quotes — Page 44

Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.”

Writing Suicide One Day

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Judd Nelson

Actor

“I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.”

Light Suicide Shows

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Jean Racine

Playwright, Poet

“By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!”

Passion Suicide

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Hope Davis

Actress

“I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.”

Girl Suicide

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John Steinbeck

Novelist, Journalist

“(Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell.”

Pain Suicide Hell

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Julian Barnes

Author

“I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which only death appears as a pinprick of light: in other words, the exact opposite of the normal condition of life.”

Light Opposites Suicide

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Joan Didion

Author, Essayist

“We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.”

Choices Suicide Multiple Choice

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Marshall McLuhan

Philosopher, Media Theorist

“For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.”

Sex Body Suicide

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Mira Grant

Author

“Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?" "Which part" asked Maggie. "The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening?”

Sound Suicide Scary

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Lord Byron

Poet, Novelist

“A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay! The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret) Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.”

Dream Regret Suicide

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Kurt Vonnegut

Novelist, Satirist

“The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.”

Men Artist Suicide

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Kurt Vonnegut

Novelist, Satirist

“Sons of suicides seldom do well.”

Son Wells Suicide

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