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Suicide Quotes by Emile Durkheim
- Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently,…
- Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general…
- The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which…
- Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds…
- Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey…
More Suicide Quotes
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- There is something great and terrible about suicide. — Honore de Balzac
- Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical… — Honore de Balzac
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams
- I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. — Travis Barker
- Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide. — Charles Barkley
- My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact. — Roseanne Barr
- Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams
- She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. — Saul Bellow
- Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous. — Robert Benchley