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“We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.”

World Mean Children Culture Natural Possibility Members Suicide Nuclear Destructive Assault Indigenous Natural World Unprecedented Magnitude Other Cultures Ferocity

Book:Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros

Source: Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros

“It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over!”

Possibility Suicide Free Will Disturbing Conundrums

Author:Yogi Berra

“Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.”

Doe Ends Chance Possibility Suicide Get Better Prevention

Author:Vic Fuentes

“While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide.”

Self Known Possibility Circumstances Aspect Raises Suicide Wounds Consistent Location Compatible Homicide Infliction

Author:Elliott Smith

“Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.”

Writing Possibility One Day Activity Suicide Adequate Bribe

Book:Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway

Source: Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway

“Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete”

Way Lasts Possibility Terrible Suicide Finals Incomplete Terrain Perpetrators

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it.”

Grows Growing Up Possibility Suicide Cake Salt Shelves Bakeries Sawdust

Book:Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

“When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.”

Men Writing Years Littles Said Matter Age Young Left Possibility No Matter What Suicide Clarity Reasonable They Said

Book:Women

Source: Women

“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”

“The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs”

Left Blood Possibility Weapons Victim Suicide Revenge Terrorist Desperate Bombing Mixing Exacting Revenge Taking Revenge

Author:A. B. Yehoshua

“I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?”

People War Earth Possibility Divine Singing Laughter Suicide Dancing Drunk Celebrate Sanity Celebration Spontaneity Ecstatic Festivities Singing Dancing

Author:Rajneesh

“Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box and stare, like Melville's Bartleby, day in and day out at the dead wall outside your window is in itself a rejection of the world which is said to be rejecting you. It is a way of saying, like Bartleby, 'I prefer not to' to every offer and every possibility, which is a condition no amount of social engineering will cure.”

People World Society Possibility Wall Window Suicide Rejection Dead Cure Social Engineering Box Shut Offer Bartleby Dingy

Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide