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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
- Freshman Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
- Far Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.
- Iran
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
- Remedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suicide is not a remedy.
- Nov 07, 2020