1,990 Quotes About Suicide

  • Author Gregory Benford
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    Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when. A planetary culture that does not develop spacefaring is courting suicide. All our history, all our social progress and growing insight will be for nothing if we perish. No risk of this kind, however small it might be argued to be, is worth taking, and no cost to prevent it is too great. No level of risk is acceptable when it comes to all or nothing survival.

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  • Author Henri Barbusse
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    It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.

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  • Author James Buchan
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    Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.

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  • Author John Berendt
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    By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.

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  • Author John Boehner
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    I always believe when your political opponents are committing suicide, there's no reason to murder them.

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