1,990 Quotes About Suicide

  • Author James Dickey
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    We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

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  • Author Kirsten Dunst
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    If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.

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  • Author Peter Drucker
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    If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.

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  • Author Phyllis Diller
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    My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.

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  • Author Richard Dawkins
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    As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold respect from the faith of Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers

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  • Author Richard Dawkins
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    It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

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  • Author Roddy Doyle
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    Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

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