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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
Suicidal

"Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
Suicidal

"Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his inner ear so he could leave this world as he'd entered it through the undependable irrational influence of water. -Kevin Jeffery Clark It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Suicidal

"The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
Suicidal

"The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are."

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Fred Thompson Politician
Suicidal

"Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world."

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
Suicidal

"Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even in hell, in spite of their certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute truth; there are some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud spirit entirely. For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are tortured by their own choice. For they have cursed themselves, cursing God and life. And they will burn in the fire of their own wrath forever and yearn for death and annihilation. But they will not attain to death."

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Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer
Suicidal

"Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Suicidal

"When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement."

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Mira Grant Author
Suicidal

"Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal."

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Mira Grant Author
Suicidal

"Didn't we talk about this?" "HAIL!" "That isn't an answer." I planted my hands on my hips. "Was there a reason for shoving the gummy bears off the counter? Did they tell you they were suicidal? On second thought," I raised a hand, palm out, "don't answer that. If the candy is talking, I don't want to know."

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Lucy Walker Artist
Suicidal

"Why is nobody questioning the sanity or suicidal tendencies of Everest ascenders? It's kind of a question of framing: How do you frame these activities? We frame them as freedom-loving, exciting, progressing sports and they are. But there are other ways to frame it. It's also true that these young men, neurologists say that their frontal lobes aren't developed yet - the long-term planning part of the brain."

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