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To marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel. Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide, but to be good. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. (Quote by - John Adams)

But if there be an hereafter, And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd And suffer'd to speak out, tells every man, Then must it be an awful thing to die; More horrid yet to die by one's own hand. (Quote by - Robert Blair)

Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)

I suggested [in 1966] that we use the panther as our symbol and call our political vehicle the Black Panther Party. The panther is a fierce animal, but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner; then he will strike out. (Quote by - Huey Newton)

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. (Quote by - Arnold Toynbee)

Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that imitation is suicide: that he must take himself for better, or for worse. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Bravest at the last, She levelled at our purposes, and being royal, Took her own way. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates. (Quote by - Saddam Hussein)

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)

Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide. (Quote by - Karl Menninger)

That was a suicide pass by Easton, he could have been responsible for the first opening goal for Leeds [as opposed to the second opening goal, presumably!] (Quote by - David Platt)

She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it. (Quote by - George Carlin)

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. (Quote by - Aristotle)

You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me; Let not my worser spirit tempt me again To die before you please. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I am leaving you with your worries. Good luck. (Quote by - George Sanders)

When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew; Who e'er a greater madness knew? Life to destroy for fear to die. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)

If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery. (Quote by - David Hume)

The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter. (Quote by - John Bright)

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. (Quote by - Phil Donahue)

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