John Adams
Founding Father, Politician
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
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Kurt Cobain
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"I hate myself, and I want to die"
Kurt Cobain
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar/ Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/ For her life, which will be so much happier without me/ I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you."
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"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."
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"I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude."
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"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."
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"Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer."
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"The fact that some people can push others to the point of thinking that their lives are not worthy is catastrophic."
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". . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us."
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"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."
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"If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will."
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"It is silliness to live when to live is torment."
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"When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again."
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"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."
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"Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness."
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"If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again."
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"After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game."
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"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."
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"My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent."
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"Suicide kills two people."
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"The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world."
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"Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it."
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"With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism."
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