1,990 Quotes About Suicide

  • Author Harry Mathews
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    She was disgusted with herself...and the disgust permanently cured her of suicide. Her piddling life did not deserve dramatic remedies.

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  • Author Jeanette Winterson
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    I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows.

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  • Author Adam Ant
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    I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.

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  • Author Alfred Adler
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    All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

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  • Author Amos Bronson Alcott
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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.

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  • Author Antonin Artaud
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    I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

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  • Author Antonin Artaud
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    I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

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