Quotes with suicide

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  • Louise Erdrich If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • George Borrow If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Haythum R. Khalid If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it's electric, but you can hang yourself with the cord.
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  • William Bernbach In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
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  • Bruce Springsteen In the day we sweat it out in the streets Of a runaway American dream At night we ride through mansions of Glory in suicide machines.
    Born to Run (1974)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne 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.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Camille Paglia My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Cesare Pavese No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Francis H. Bradley 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.''
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Brent Spiner People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.
    Brent Spiner
    American actor, comedian and singer (1949 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
    Suicide remarks are torn
    From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
    Plays wasted words, proves to warn
    That he not busy being born is busy dying.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger Political courage is not political suicide.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • John Adams Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Carl I. Hagen Some have said that what is happening now is the beginning of World War III. Fundamentalists take over countries with population flows across borders. After some time riots occur, as we see now in France. There is talk about 30,000 recruited suicide bombers.
    About immigration, Islam etc. After the 2005 civil unrest in France, interviewed
    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • Philip Roth Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Anne Stevenson Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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