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"No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train."

Alvarez, A. on suicide
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"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."

Borrow, George on suicide    Share

"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."

Bradley, Francis H. on suicide    Share

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

Cioran, E. M. on suicide
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"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."

Cioran, E. M. on suicide
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"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."

Connolly, Cyril on suicide
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"Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon."

Durkheim, Emile on suicide    Share

"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."

Ellis, Havelock on suicide    Share

"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"

Genet, Jean on suicide    Share

"Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life."

Havel, Vaclav on suicide
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"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."

Lebowitz, Fran on suicide    Share

"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on suicide    Share

"It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on suicide    Share

"And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more."

Nash, Ogden on suicide    Share

"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on suicide
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"When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on suicide
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"I am just going outside and may be some time."

Oates, Lawrence on suicide    Share

"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."

Parker, Dorothy on suicide
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"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."

Pavese, Cesare on suicide
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"At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death."

Pavese, Cesare on suicide
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"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."

Pound, Ezra on suicide    Share

"Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?"

Shakespeare, William on suicide
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"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."

Szasz, Thomas on suicide
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"“I know I’m not the only person who thinks about suicide. Who has dark thoughts, and brain racing late at night when they’re alone.""

Tyler The Creator on suicide    Share

"They claim the shit I say is just wrong. Like nobody has those really dark thoughts when alone. I'm just a teenager, who admits he's suicide prone. My life is doing pretty good, so that date is postponed for now."

Tyler The Creator on suicide    Share

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