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Quote by Cyril Connolly
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the n

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. – Cyril Connolly

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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. – Cyril Connolly

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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. – Charles Caleb Colton

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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, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. – Emile Durkheim

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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable. – Immanuel Kant

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