- Routine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suicide Quotes
Sober reflections on despair, handled with care.
One recurring concern here is how young people can be shaken by relationships or friend groups that form quickly and then fall apart, with real trauma left behind. This page gathers reflective quotes on the subject, handled with care rather than any lighter angle. Related reading continues on Committing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Syrians lost out because they happened to have their revolution during an election cycle in America, France, and bizarrely, some kind of election cycle in Russia. Obama wasn't going to be seen to commit anything to Syria, that would be political suicide, but he's also got a Nobel Peace Prize sitting on his mantelpiece.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
- Debate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far from definitively resolving the assisted suicide issue, the court's decisions seem to assure that the debate over assisted suicide and euthanasia is not yet over - and may have only begun.
- Effecting
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- Nov 07, 2020
American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every movie that I've picked, from my first film on, has been considered by everyone to be 'career suicide.' And I have an amazing life. I have an amazing career. I work with artists. But I'm not making 'Spider-Man.'
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020