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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian
Suicide

"If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when he denied him: "I know not this man." Self-denial is never just a series of isolated acts of mortification or asceticism. It is not suicide, for there is an element of self-will even in that. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self denial can say is: "He leads the way, keep close to him."

Men Self Suicide
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
Suicide

"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more."

Years Suicide Enjoy Life
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Allen West Politician
Suicide

"I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy."

Thinking Suicide Tolerance
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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
Suicide

"The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you think you are doing an act of justice. But they will only suck you dry, wear out your energy, nourish themselves on your ideas. After being the most compassionate man in the world, I say to you today: Let the weak ones die, let them commit suicide."

Thinking Men Suicide
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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
Suicide

"At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness."

Imagination Suicide June
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Anne Stevenson Poet, Writer
Suicide

"Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally."

Half Sorry Suicide
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Antonin Artaud Playwright, Actor, Theorist
Suicide

"For the lost are lost by nature, all your ideas of moral regeneration will make no difference, there is AN INNATE DETERMINISM, there is an undeniable incurability in suicide, crime, idiocy, madness, there is an invincible cuckoldry in man, there is a congenital weakness of the character, a castration of the mind."

Men Character Suicide
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Antonin Artaud Playwright, Actor, Theorist
Suicide

"By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality."

Reality Suicide Suicidal
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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
Suicide

"Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality."

Girl College Suicide
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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
Suicide

"In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden."

Book Suicide Suicidal
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Viktor E. Frankl Psychiatrist, Neurologist
Suicide

"Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide."

People Fall Suicide
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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
Suicide

"The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week."

Men Today Suicide
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Tim Ferriss Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
Suicide

"Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you're never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don't warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic."

Two Media Suicide
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