1,990 Quotes About Suicide

  • Author Rem Koolhaas
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    The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

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  • Author Stanley Kunitz
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    Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.

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  • Author Stephen King
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    There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.

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  • Author Susanna Kaysen
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    It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather.

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  • Author Susanna Kaysen
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    But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn’t dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I’d managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than I’d been in years.

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  • Author Barbara Lee
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    I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

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  • Author Clare Boothe Luce
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    You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

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