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And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Clown at V, i) Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Casca at III, i) You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me; Let not my worser spirit tempt me again To die before you please. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Gloucester at IV, vi) Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves. - Thomas Sherlock God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) By all human laws, as well as divine, self-murder has ever been agreed on as the greatest crime. - Sir William Temple Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. - Daniel Webster, Argument on the Murder of Captain White Bid abhorrence hiss it round the world. - Edward Young He who, superior to the checks of Nature, dares make his life the victim of his reason, does in some sort that reason deify, and take a flight at heaven. - Edward Young 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. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night V, l. 436) Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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