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“I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving.”

Moving Suicide Abortion Penalties Traffic Death Penalty Pro Abortion Assisted Suicide

Author:Bill Maher

“When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you encounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.”

Source: Southern ladies and gentlemen

“And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.”

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Author:Ntozake Shange

“I wanted to be wanted and he was very beautiful, kissed with his eyes closed, and only felt good while moving. You could drown in those eyes, I said, so it’s summer, so it’s suicide, so we’re helpless in sleep and struggling at the bottom of the pool.”

Said Eye Wanted Beautiful Moving Felt Sleep Struggle Summer Suicide Bottom His Eyes Pool Helpless Very Beautiful

Author:Richard Siken

“When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.”

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Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“'This' pain I can see it but I can't feel it It haunts me When I cut myself I can see where the pain is coming from and watch it heal And I can easily care for it 'This' pain doesn't have a specific place It moves around and creeps into strange places.”

Feels I Can Care Pain Moving Watches Cutting Strange Suicide Heal Creeps Self Harm Strange Places

Author:Melanie

“Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example”

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Author:George S. Patton

“I tell people, if you're thinking about suicide, all that stuff I've attempted and thought about it. If you think about it, life gets better. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.”

People Ifs Thinking Moving Stuff Keys Tough Suicide Get Better Keep Moving Just Keep Moving Life Gets Better

Author:Tyler Perry

“You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.”

Trying Mind Body Moving Protect Suicide Speed

Book:Dreams of Sleep

Source: Dreams of Sleep

“The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.”

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Book:Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.”

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Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence

“The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother and brother had not been there I would have made no move to jump.”

Ifs Made Moving Mother Water Journey Brother Drink Rivers Suicide Bridges

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar