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"If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior. You are still able to actively seek solutions to your problems. You are willing to go to great lengths to provide what you believe will be soothing to yourself. This strikes me as optimistic."
"Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood."
"And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen."
"Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide."
"The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits."
"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide."
"Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived."
"Over coffee and orange juice the embryonic suicide brightens visibly."
"If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide."
"It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate."
"Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and died very quickly on October, 12, 1921." Joe Fisher continued the research: Emilia died "fourteen months before Paulo's birth. He took on Emilia's self destructive instincts. Paulo made several attempts to kill himself before committing suicide on September 5, 1966 by setting himself on fire."
"I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg."
"I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."
"How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life."
"There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty."
"To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death."
"The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night."
"...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age."
"Let us dare to read, think, speak and write."
"The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in."
