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Night falls fast. Blown from the dark hill hither to my
door Edna St. Vincent Millay |
The common purpose is to seek a solution. Edwin Shneidman |
What a job is this, to measure lightning with a
footrule, the heart's turbulence with a pair of
callipers.
Norman MacCaig |
There are things you see that you can't unsee. They
get in your head and stay there.
"Max" in 8mm |
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Hope now,—not health, nor cheerfulness,
Since they can come and go again, As often one brief hour witnesses,— Just hope has gone forever. Edward Thomas |
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. Dorothy Parker |
The calm,
Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. Langston Hughes |
Unfortunately none of us can see far ahead; prophecy
is not for us. Hence the paucity of suicides.
Mark Twain |
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O, yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood. Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
But it is always a question whether I wish to avoid
these glooms...
These 9 weeks give one a plunge into deep waters.... One goes down into the well & nothing protects one from the assault of truth.
Virginia Woolf |
But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which
tools. They never ask why build. Anne Sexton |
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who
commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning
faculties atrophied with drink.
Mark Twain |
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In all miseries of our earthly life, to be able to
compass one's own death is the best of God's gifts to
man.
Pliny |
...Time does not heal,
It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. Elizabeth Jennings |
Look to the living, love them, and hold on.
Douglas Dunn |
Suicide is the only sane thing the young or old ever
do in this life.
Mark Twain |
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The grim bottom line therefore is that suicide, in a
double sense, will prove to be the death of the
future.
R. Diekstra |
We might say that every human faces this dilemma: He
cannot face death unless he is a whole person, yet he
can become a truly whole person only by facing
death.
H. Searles |
By death a person ceases to be involved in
interpersonal relationships and he become a Thing
which his fellow men bury in the ground. The act by
which a person turns himself into a Thing is called
suicide.
A. H. Chapman |
You see, the lightning refuses to strike me--that is
where the defect is. We have to do our own striking,
as Barney Bernato did. But nobody ever gets the
courage till he goes crazy.
Mark Twain |
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If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If
anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed.
This throws light on the nature of ethics, for
suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin.
L. Wittgenstein |
Encompass'd with a thousand dangers
Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand
terrors.... I...in a fleshly tomb, am William Cowper |
What is the fate of the survivors? They are hurt so.
That is, the suicidal person puts his psychological
skeleton in the survivor's closet. And that's a bitch
to have in terms of your memory bank, all the
time.
Edwin Shneidman |
I have been half in love with easeful Death.
Keats |
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I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death. W. B. Yeats |
The grief of the worshippers left behind,
the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release. Mark Twain |
There is but one truly serious philosophical
problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life
is or is not worth living amounts to answering the
fundamental question of philosophy. Albert Camus |
Had I not read somewhere that a man ought not of his
own free will take away his life so long as he could
still can perform a good action, I should long ago
have been dead--and, indeed, by my own hand.
Ludwig von Beethoven |
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There is only one liberty, to come to terms with
death. after which everything is possible.
Albert Camus |
The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people
a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.
William Styron |
No man is psychologically complete unless he has
meditated his own destruction.
William James |
I will not relinquish old age if it leaves my better part intact. But if it begins to shake my mind, if it destroys its faculties one by one, if it leaves me not life but breath, I will depart from the putrid or tottering edifice ... If I must suffer without hope of relief, I will depart.
Seneca |
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I that in heill was and gladness
Am trublit now with great sickness And feblit with infirmitie:— Timor Mortis contubat me. William Dunbar |
O when the pride of Graecia's noblest race
Wanders, as now, in darkness and disgrace, When reason's day Sets rayless—joyless—quenched in cold decay, Better to die and sleep The never waking sleep than linger on And dare to live, when the soul's life is gone. Sophocles |
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. G. K. Chesterton |
It seems a law of nature that the race must pay a
penalty for development, and while some develop
others must degenerate, hence insanity and suicide
must increase as civilization and material progress
advance.
John Chalmers Da Costa |
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Whoever is oppressed with the burden of life, whoever
desires life and affirms it, but abhors its torments,
such a man has no deliverance to hope from death, and
cannot right himself by suicide.
Arthur Schopenhauer |
Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
Sylvia Plath |
Free to die and free in death, able to say a holy No
when the time for Yes has passed; thus he knows how
to die and to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
We fear the thought of suicide, and yet we need to think rationally about it, if we can, because one of the characteristics of our time is precisely that it is a suicidal age.... For the well-to-do—and they are the ones most suicidal—there is comfort, security, no end of distraction, life should be livable and even happy.
Thomas Merton |
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As I choose the ship in which I will sail, and the
house I will inhabit, so I will choose the death by
which I will leave life...The lot of man is happy
because no one continues wretched but by his own
fault.
Seneca |
In the morning of life the son tears himself loose from the mother, from the domestic hearth, to rise through battle to his destined heights. Always he imagines his worst enemy in front of him, yet he carries the enemy within himself—a deadly longing for the abyss, a longing to drown in his own source, to be sucked down to the realm of the Mothers. His life is a constant struggle against extinction, a violent yet fleeting deliverance from every-lurking night. This death is no external enemy, it is his own inner longing for the stillness and profound peace of all-knowing no-existence, for all-seeing sleep in the ocean of coming-to-be and passing away.
C. G. Jung |
But if I know that I must suffer without hope of
relief, I will depart, not through fear of pain
itself, but because it prevents all for which I would
live.
Seneca |
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which
He has inflicted upon men, He would kill
Himself.
Alexandre Dumas, fils |
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I remember times when the inner disputation
Was quite fierce (to pursue the game, or sign A full stop to pain). The call was mine— Or so it seemed. Each voice a singular temptation: The beguiling cries of long-for rest, ? |
If one day, as well may happen, life grows wearisome,
there only remains to pour a libation to death and
oblivion. A drop of subtle poison will gently close
your eyes to the sun, and waft you smiling into the
eternal night whence everything comes and to which
everything returns.
Lucretius |
Peturbation and lethality are the bad parents of
human self-destruction.
Edwin Shneidman |
We have no power to prevent ourselves being born: but we can rectify this error—for it is sometimes an error. When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable things possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Suicide is a tragic drama in the mind.
Edwin Shneidman |
Stretch me no longer in this rough world.
Lear |
For what is suicide but an action to put an end to
intolerable emotions?
Henry A. Murray |
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it
takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's
harder to stay where you are than to get out. (For
everyone but you, that is.)
Judith Rossner |
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Since we can die but once, what matters it,
If rope or garter, poison, pistol, sword, Slow-wasting sickness, or the sudden burst Of valve arterial in the noble parts, Curtail the miseries of human life? Though varied is the cause, the effect's the same: All to one common dissolution tends. Thomas Chatterton |
Do I deserve credit
for not having tried suicide— or am I afraid the exotic act will make me blunder, not knowing error is remedied by practice as our first home-photographs headless, half-headed, tilting extinguished by a flashbulb? Robert Lowell |
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death. William Butler Yeats |
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and,
while it is true that the suicide braves death, he
does it not for some noble object but to escape some
ill.
Aristotle |
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Suicide is an act of ambition that can be committed
only when one has passed beyond ambition.
A. Alvarez |
I know a hundred ways to die.
I've often thought I'd try one:
Lie down beneath a motor truck Some day when standing by one. Or throw myself from off a bridge— I know some poison I could drink. Edna St. Vincent Millay |
The hand that whirls the water in the pool
Stirs the quicksand; that ropes the blowing wind Hauls my shroud sail. Dylan Thomas |
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have
committed suicide.
Mohandas K. Gandhi |
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Whensoever any affliction assails me, methinks I have
the keys of my prison in mine own hand and no remedy
presents itself so soon to my heart as mine own
sword.
John Donne |
That life is worth living is the most necessary of
assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most
impossible of conclusions.
George Santayana |
And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you
All through my life?—sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing—oh, worst of all things!—the same head?— And, when I feed myself, feeding you, too? Edna St. Vincent Millay |
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and,
while it is true that the suicide braves death, he
does it not for some noble object but to escape some
ill.-
Aristotle |
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My ultimate guardian—namely myself—has not just gone off duty, but, so much more dangerously, has become the advocate, the agent of destruction.
Joel P. Smith |
The Heart asks Pleasure—first—
And then—Excuse from Pain— And then—those little Anodynes That deaden suffering— And the—to go to sleep— And then—if it should be The will of the Inquisitor The privilege to die— Emily Dickinson |
Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me, cold
Are all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feet Upon thy glimmering thresholds, when the steam Floats up from those dim fields about the homes Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead. Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the
oven, but there was a cake in it.
Lesley Boone |
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It will generally be found that where the terrors of life come to outweigh the terrors of death a man will put an end to his life. But the terrors of death offer considerable resistance: they stand like a sentinal at the exit gate.
Arthur Schopenhauer |
Consolation by a possible suicide widens into
infinite space this realm where we are
suffering....What greater wealth than the suicide
each of us bears within himself?
E. M. Cioran |
We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each
other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need
to learn it.
Rilke |
As much as the suicidal personality feels able to
escape the world by getting rid of the body,
reincarnation's revolving door ensures that all hope
(of escape) is short lived.
Joe Fisher |
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...We are all old-timers,
each of us holds a locked razor. Robert Lowell |
a reasonable exit
Stoics |
Dip the apple in the brew,
Let the sleeping death seep through. Wicked Witch |
One said of suicide, "As long as one has brains one
should not blow them out." And another answered, "But
when one has ceased to have them, too often one
cannot."
F. H. Bradley |
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The ocean doesn't want me today,
But I'll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard's away. But the ocean doesn't want me today. Tom Waits |
Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to
drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank, but that's
not the same thing.
Joseph Conrad |
There is only one prospect worse than being chained
to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a
botched attempt to end it.
Arthur Koestler |
It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of
despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It
was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To
wait.
Erica Jong |
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...So I concluded that the dead are better off than
the living. And most fortunate of all are those who
were never born.
Ecclesiastes |
All healthy men having thought of their own
suicide...
Albert Camus |
Suicide has never been dealt with except as a social
phenomenom...An act like this is prepared within the
silence, as is a great work of art. The man himself
is ignorant of it. One evening he pulls the trigger
or jumps.
Albert Camus |
Suicide...is about life, being in fact the sincerest
form of criticism life gets.
Wilfrid Sheed |
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go
on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a
residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about
to depart from life.
Seneca |
...the day you die is better than the day you are
born.
Ecclesiastes |
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift, and
to many a favour.
Seneca |
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
Benjamin Franklin |
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It's downhill in too many ways now. I've had
enough.
me |
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a
prolonged death is necessarily worse.
Seneca |
Love dead. Hate living.
Frankenstein |
Every disgruntled person in this world has played
with the idea of suicide, self destruction, at some
time or other.
Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad |
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It is obvious that everyone has no more undeniable
right than that to his own personality and
life.
Arthur Schopenhauer |
see ya...wouldn't want to be ya
me |
He who does not accept and respect those who want to
reject life does not truly accept and respect life
itself.
Thomas Szasz |
Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little
boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot
yourself, but to know exactly that you're always
making a choice.
Lina Wertmuller |
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I believe often that death is good medical treatment
because it can achieve what all the medical advances
and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop
the suffering of the patient.
Christiaan Barnard |
It is not a thing to do while one is not in one's
best mind. Never kill yourself while you are
suicidal.
Edwin Shneidman |
Death is my final civil liberty, and I do not choose
to surrender it to the state, a church or a
physician.
Frederick Ellis |
Never murder a man who is committing suicide.
Woodrow Wilson |
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Everything's eventual.
Stephen King |
Every person's fight with death is lost before it
begins. What makes the struggle worthwhile,
therefore, cannot lie in the outcome. It lies in the
dignity with which the fight is waged and the way it
finds an end.
Joseph Fletcher |
But for prejudice there would be more; many more;
all
Dostoyevsky's Kirilov |
L'animo mio, per disdegnoso gusto credendo col morir fuggir disdegno,ingiusto fece me contra me giusto.
[I was very upset and I believed to avoid the
scorn of the other people by dying; so I committed
suicide.] Dante Alighieri |
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Why do they always have to come up with a
'reason'?
Laura Anderson |
Consolation by a possible suicide widens into
infinite space this realm where we are
suffering....What greater wealth than the suicide
each of us bears within himself?
E. M. Cioran |
When asked, 'Sibyl, what do you want?' she would
reply, 'I want to die.'
T. S. Eliot |
(Suicide is) a suicidal act with a fatal
outcome
WHO |
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The absolute hopelessness of suicidal depression is,
by its nature, contagious, and it renders those who
would help impotent to do so.
Kay Jamison |
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of
cowardice...that suicide is wrong; when it is quite
obvious that there is nothing in the world to which
every man has a more unassailable title than to his
own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer |
The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means
of it one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me—I quit."
Bill Maher |
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depression's last stop
George Colt |
No one ever lacks a good reason to suicide.
Cesare Pavese |
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and,
while it is true that the suicide braves death, he
does it not for some noble object but to escape some
ill.
Aristotle |
It's probably the only way we can give our death a
meaning. Because otherwise it's completely
arbitrary.
David Cronbenberg |
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The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of
those things you have to do now or you lose your
chance. I mean, you can always do it later.
Harvey Fierstein |
Who is in charge of the clattering train?
The axles creak and the couplings strain;
And the pace is hot, and the points are near, And Sleep has deadened the driver's ear; And the signals flash throught the night in vain, For Death is in charge of the clattering train. Anonymous |
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we
choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing
and blushing, given to no other animal...in any given
moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we
are choosing to live.
Peter McWilliams |
Suicide is prepared within the silence of the art, as
is a great work of art.
Albert Camus |
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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major
weapon against the suicide impulse.
Karl A. Menninger |
Life is impoverished, it loses
its interest, when the highest stake in the game of
living, life itself, cannot be risked.
Sigmund Freud |
Whenever Richard Cory went downtown,
We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean-favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, "Good morning," and he glittered when he walked. And he was rich -- yes, richer than a king -- And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head. Edwin Arlington Robinson |
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself without
desperation. before taking the step he deliberates so
long and so carefully that he literally chokes with
thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to
be called a suicide, since it is really thought which
takes his life. He does not die with deliberation,
but from deliberation.
Søren Kierkegaard |
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I do see that there is an argument against suicide:
the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful
famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms
for the release.I do see that there is an argument
against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left
behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are
too costly terms for the release.
Mark Twain |
People who talk a lot about their troubles never
commit suicide; talk's the greatest safety-valve
there is. I always laugh at that bit in Hamlet where
he pretends to despise himself because he unpacks his
heart with words, and falls a-scolding like a very
drab; that's why the soliloquy about suicide is just
Hamlet putting on intellectual airs. A chatterbox
like that would never pop himself off with a bare
bodkin. No, the suicides are the quiet ones, who
can't find the words to fit their misery.
Robertson Davies |
the Gordian knot of pleasure and of pain can only be
severed by the stroke that terminates
existence.
Madame De Stael-Holstein |
There is no refuge from confession but suicide, and
suicide is confession.
Daniel Webster |
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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy
myself, but to put myself back together again.
Suicide will be for me only one means of violently
re-conquering myself...
Antoin Artaud |
Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.
Joyce Carol Oates |
The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to
sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of
the mind.
Sylvia Plath |
The body is a damn hard thing to kill.
Anne Sexton |
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Suicide...seems to me to be a flight by which man hopes to recover Paradise Lost instead of trying to deserve Heaven.
Paul-Louis Landsberg |
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman. One kills oneself because love—any love—reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
Cesare Pavese |
If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide, if cool my heart and high my head I think, "How lucky are the dead." Dorothy Parker |
Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive
officiously to keep alive.
A. H. Clough |
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Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall
find one.
Sir Thomas Browne |
Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up...
Jean Rhys |
It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.
Edward Hoagland |
I wish that I was dead. Oh, they'll be sorry then.
I hate them and I'll kill myself tomorrow. I want to die. I hate them, hate them. Hate. Vernon Scannell |
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There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is
a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run
away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite
understand.
Socrates |
Self-murder, that infernal crime, which all the gods
level their thunder at!
Fane |
If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?
Joanne Greenberg |
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and
alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
Edward Abbey |
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
Edward Abbey |
When we are treated as enemies by destiny we have a
right to endeavor to escape its malignity: and yet
the regulator which determines the result of this
balance is entirely within ourselves: the same sort
of life, which reduces one to despair, would fill
another with joy, who is placed in a sphere of less
elevated hopes.
Madame De Stael-Holstein |
You fellows, in your business, you have a way of
handling problems like this. Somebody leaves a pistol
in the drawer. I don't have a pistol.
Richard Nixon, to Al Haig |
There are circumstances in which suicide presents a
viable option; a workable
alternative; the only sensible solution. Edward Abbey |
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Life is pleasant.
Death is peaceful. It's the transition that troublesome. Isaac Asimov |
Suicide is the most sincere form of
self-criticism
unknown |
I hate myself, and I want to die.
Kurt Cobain |
It's better to burn out
Than to fade away. Neil Young |
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Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just
as muddled as when they do anything important under
emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide
are as rare as carefully planned acts of
homicide.
Erwin Stengel |
The ocean doesn't want me today,
But I'll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard's away But the ocean doesn't want me today. Tom Waits |
The person who completes suicide dies once. Those
left behind die a thousand deaths, trying to relive
those terrible moments and understand...
unknown |
But we are all insane anyway...The suicides seem to
be the only sane people.
Mark Twain |
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Death is in my sight today
Like the recovery of a sick man... Like the longing of a man to see his house again After many years of captivity.... "Dispute Over Suicide" |
Suicide is multifaceted. It can be done out of
courage or cowardice. It can be an escape or an act
of protest. There is no ethical standard by which to
judge suicide. It always depends on the individual
and the circumstances. I think everyone has the right
to make his own choice...
Nikolai Rafaelovich |
Blessed be he who has passed
through this world In its fateful moments. Tiutchev |
It'll be by a train or a Desert Eagle .357
Magnum.
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...a wicked and perfidious act to cast out of one's
body the soul which God has committed to it.
Joesphus Flavius |
...Yes, but there are sadder things in life even that that. Short as it is, there is not a man in the world who is happy enough not to wish—not once but again and again—to be dead rather than alive. Troubles come, diseases afflict us, and this makes life, desipte its brevity, seem all to long....
Artabanus |
...it is better not to be born, next best to leave
this world as quickly as possible.
Theognis of Megara |
Not to be born is the most to be desired; but having
seen the light, the next best is to go whence one
came as soon as may be.
Sophocles |
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Thou shalt not kill.
Sixth Commandment |
Paete, non dolet.
Arria |
...death afford our souls their liberty and sends
them to their own place of purity, where they are to
be insesible to all sorts of miseries.
Eleazar |
What shall become of their souls, God alone can tell.
His mercy may come...betwixt the bridge and the
brook, the knife and the throat.
Robert Burton |
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...a French solider ought to show as much courage in
facing the adversities and afflictions of life as he
shows in facing the fire of a battery. Whoever
commits suicide is a coward.
Napoleon |
...the existence of God is the supreme argument
against the legitimacy of suicide.
L'ùon Meynard |
...at the bottom, all the reasons leading to suicide can be reduced to one—namely suffering. Disease, failure, misery, death are but some of the expressions, among many others, of the basic evil.
L'ùon Meynard |
Death hath ten thousand several doors.
John Webster |
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The many at one moment shun death as the greatest of
evils, at another yearn for it as a respite from the
evils of life...
Epicuris |
No one kills himself who did not want to kill another
or, at least, wish death to another.
Wilhelm Stekel |
...childish form of raction to a childish
overestimation of motivations, humiliations, and
disappointments. It represents, like neurosis and
psychosis, an escape by anti-social means from the
injustices of life.
Alfred Adler |
Nobody commits suicide who has not given up hope for
love.
Isidor Sadger |
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To sum up: remember the door is open. Be not a
greater coward than the children, bu do as they do.
When things do not please them, they, "I will not
play anymore." So when things seem to you to reach
that point, just say "I will not play anymore" and so
depart, instead of staying to make moan.
Epicetus |
Death is a very sure haven, which should never be feared, and often sought...the more volunatry a death is the more beautiful it is...Life depends on the will of others' death on our own will.
Seneca |
I don't break the law (referring to "Thou Shalt Not Kill") made for crooks, when I take away my own property—thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.
Michel de Montaigne |
To live by violence is unfair, to die by violence is
the fairest of all.
Seneca |
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...That a man, from the necessity of his own nature,
should endeavor to become non-existent is as
impossible as that something should be made out of
nothing.
Spinoza |
...We must wait, they say, for the end Nature has
decreed. The man who says this does not see that he
has blocked his way to freedom. Eternal law has never
been more generous than in affording us so many exits
to one entry....The situation of humanity is good in
that no one is wretched except by his own fault. If
you like, live; if you don't like, you can go back
where you came from.
Seneca |
La douleur insupportable et une pire mort me semblent
les plus excusables incitations.
Michel de Montaigne |
If it is permitted to seek a cure for gout, why not
for life?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "St. Preux" |
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Prevention of Suicide: There is a justice according
to which we take a man's life, but there is none
whatsoever when we deprive him of dying: this is only
cruelty.
Friedrich Wilhem Nietzsche |
The life of man is of no greater importance to
universe than that of an oyster.
David Hume |
Suicide is man's right and privilege.
Friedrich Wilhem Nietzsche |
Prudence and courage should engage us to rid
ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a
burden.
David Hume |
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I guess they call it suicide,
but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police |
...the supreme boon bestowed on man among all the
penalties of life.
Pliny the Elder |
You wanna commit suicide...tie your shoes and have
some brugiol.
"Tony Soprano," The Sopranos |
Death really only hurts those who are left.
"Augustus Hill," Oz |
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It takes far less courage to kill yourself
than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. (For everyone but you, that is.) Judith Rossner |
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life
which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. Alexandre Dumas, fils |
La mort est secourable et la mort est
tranquille.
Ah! contre les douleurs il n'ya a pas d'autre asile. Leo Tolstoy |
I tried to commit suicide
by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it. Lesley Boone |
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As much as the suicidal personality feels able to
escape the world by getting rid of the body,
reincarnation's revolving door ensures that all hope
(of escape) is short lived.
Joe Fisher |
Every disgruntled person in this world has played
with the idea of suicide, self destruction, at some
time or other.
Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad |
Be grateful for every year you live. No matter how
long you live, remember that you will be dead much
longer. There is nothing at all to look forward
to.
Ecclesiastes 11:18 |
It is silliness to live when life is torment; and
then we have a prescription to die when death is our
physician.
"Roderigo," Othello |
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Ye know not the time or the hour.
Bible |
Bsu-f x (Pw x Ew x [Hw x Mw]/Ps x Es x [Hs x Ms]) or
Bsu=f(Pw x Ew x sBrw/Ps x Es x Sbrs)
Calvin J. Frederick/H. L. P. Resnik |
You will not find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf |
The dead drive fast.
Dracula |
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No thought is born in me that has not "Death" engraved upon it.
Michelangelo |
Better an end with terror than a terror without end.
German saying |
Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it.
Robert E. Neale |
When man is seen from the very pit of despair, it may be said that there are only three kinds of people: those who commit suicide, those who attempt it and fail, and those who do not even try. The latter are the living dead.
Robert E. Neale |
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Perhaps we are all already on the path, losing our lives and it is only a matter of time.
Robert E. Neale |
The despair of the living dead "is the disconsolateness of not being able to die."
Søren Kierkegaard |
For death rarely seeks out people; we seek out death.
Robert E. Neale |
motivations behind suicide ... death as retaliatory abandonment, as omnipotent mastery, as self-punishment, as a reunion, as a phenomenon that in an emotional sense has already taken place, as retroflexed murder, and as rebirth.
Herbert Hendin |
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Virginia Woolf |
the most fatal of sins because it cannot be repented of
Thomas Aquinas |
We are not responsible for one another's lives or deaths; each man's life and death is his own. But we are responsible to our involvements.
James Hillman |
Death shall be no more, nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow.
Apoc. 21:4 |
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Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and right place, they're capable of anything.
Noah Cross, in Chinatown |
What they don't know is what we do to them in our heads.
sniper, in Phone Booth |
In my dreams I'm dying all the time ... I never meant to hurt you. I never meant to lie. So this is goodye...this is goodbye ... Tell the truth, you never wanted me. Tell me.
Moby |
Suicide can liberate one from the anxiety of fate and death—as the Stoics knew. But it cannot liberate from the anxiety of guilt and condemnation—as the Christians know.
Paul Tillich |
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I believed a person could consider himself a human being as long as he felt totally prepared to kill himself, to interfere in his own biography.
Varlam Shalamov |
The kid in me is suicidal over the fat batard I've become.
"Peter Griffin," The Family Guy |
Thus we hear that suicide is the most cowardly of acts, that only a madman would commit it, and similar insipidities; or the senseless assertion that suicide is "wrong," though it is obvious there is nothing in the world a man has more incontestable right to than his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer |
The psychoanalytic theories of suicide prove, perhaps, only what was already obvious: that the processes which lead a man to take his own life are at least as complex and difficult as those by which he continues to live. The theories help untangle the intricacy of motive and define the deep ambiguity of the wish to die but say little about what it means to be suicidal, and how it feels.
A. Alvarez |
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It is this which makes suicide easier: for the physical pain associated with it loses all significance in the eyes of one afflicted by excessive spiritual suffering.
Arthur Schopenhauer |
Why commit suicide? Pills are a whole lot easier.
"Johnny Sack," The Sopranos |
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