1,990 Quotes About Suicide

  • Author Paul Samuelson
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    Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be eagerly followed. Few people will commit suicide without a push. And fewer still will pay good money to be told to do what is against human nature and self-interest to do.

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  • Author Philip Sidney
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    God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.

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  • Author Sophocles
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    Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

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  • Author Stendhal
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    Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

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  • Author Thomas Sowell
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    Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

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  • Author Thomas Szasz
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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.

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