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“All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.”

Knows Way Wells Mean Soul Hands Fall Fighting Responsibility Suicide Corners Temptation Shabby Steppenwolf

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.”

Ifs Soul Earth Dies Heaven Loss Suicide Add Profession Gambling Ruined Martyr Renounce Forfeit

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so plentifully along its paths; and lacking which no soul can come again from beyond the grave to gather.”

Men World Soul Path Suicide Graves Abandon Lacking Jewels Monk Hasty

Book:Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

Source: Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

“Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.”

Soul Black Shame Suicide Wings Flight Britain Fear Of Death Gloomy Infamous Sullen Fears Of Life Impetuous

Book:Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job

Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job

“People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.”

“Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.”

“You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.”

“We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' " ~ Barney Livingston, M.D. (Doctors, 1989)”

Source: Doctors

“Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.”

Men Made Soul Today Able Lasts Religion Sound Century Prove Equal Degrees Suicide Atheist Accomplish Surface Statements Commit Angle Interiors Theologian Nineteenth Century Feats Triangles

Author:Carl Sagan

“Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.”

Persons Soul God Spirit Tree Judgment Suicide Sinner Trunks Judgment Day Tree Trunks

Book:The Tenth Circle: A Novel

Source: The Tenth Circle: A Novel

“If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.”

Ifs Knows Soul Sleep Grief Sad Died Suicide Pills Bleeding Sleeping Pills

Author:Clifford Odets

“What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?”

Men World Soul This World Suicide Committed Practicals Perceive Heavenly Carrie Practical Things

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.”

Soul Life Is Dies Sleep Gone Suicide Dare Waking

Author:Sophocles

“Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.”

“The most incredible architecture Is the architecture of Self, which is ever changing, evolving, revolving and has unlimited beauty and light inside which radiates outwards for everyone to see and feel. With every in breathe you are adding to your life and every out breathe you are releasing what is not contributing to your life. Every breathe is a re-birth.”

Source: The Master's Sacred Knowledge

“Note and Quote to Self – What you think, say and do! Your life mainly consists of 3 things! What you think, What you say and What you do! So always be very conscious of what you are co-creating!”

Book:The Master's Sacred Knowledge

Source: The Master's Sacred Knowledge

“NOTE TO SELF – BOOMERANG EFFECT My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!”

Book:The Master's Sacred Knowledge

Source: The Master's Sacred Knowledge

“Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace! Don’t be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to your inner world”

Author:Allan Rufus

“Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus”

“Quotes and notes to self- Divine and Unique Power Find out what my Individual Divine and Unique Power IS and offer it outwards in harmony with all life!”

Book:The Master's Sacred Knowledge

Source: The Master's Sacred Knowledge

“I wish you all an ego free driven day!”

Book:The Master's Sacred Knowledge

Source: The Master's Sacred Knowledge

“Software is not supposed to damage hardware. Mind is not supposed to damage body. But it is happening in most people. In some cases mind is so nasty that it is ready to kill the body instead of killing itself. When individual mind goes, universal mind takes over. Then peace dawns because body belongs to the universe.”

Mind Soul Body Psychology Suicide Mental Health Suicidal Thoughts

Author:Shunya

“Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour? Allan Rufus.org”

“The thick baffling blades of false world customs rip off my views and ideas,like breaking every string of my aesthetic thoughts in disdain and jealousy;pain pain enough your tigrine roars before I die.”

Source: Venus and Crepuscule

“Ah! listen the song of storm from my disturbed soul;and it scatters flower buds into its lonely halls;like every pain needs a dirge,with wreaths that awful the world framed one for me,and gives the time it calls.”

Source: Venus and Crepuscule