“I think many people ill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.”

— Susanna Kaysen , book Girl, Interrupted

Variant: I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.
Source: Girl, Interrupted

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American writer 1948

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)

“It is clear today that modern science developed when people stopped debating metaphysical questions about the world and instead concerned themselves with the discovery of laws that were primarily mathematical.”

Mordechai Ben-Ari (1948) Israeli computer scientist

Source: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 11, “Logic and Mathematics: Scientists Like It Clear and Precise” (p. 184)

“If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.”

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician

Act I
The Cherry Orchard (1904)

“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Variant: Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“I don't care what people think about me, I care what they think about themselves.”

Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress

FUSE Lady Gaga: On The Record (Part 1) HQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiYM-OzG6yw

“The word "freedom" is rather generic today, and in my mind, sadly, an ill-defined term. Many people think it simply means saying whatever you want and doing whatever you want whenever you want. But true freedom is easy to overlook today. Too many of our fellow citizens are willing to go to the polls and vote away the freedoms of themselves and others simply because they have been convinced of the supposed worthiness of some social goal.”

Lynn Compton (1921–2012) Easy Company soldier turned noted jurist

Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), p. 248

“People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.”

Stephen R. Covey book The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.”

Terry Pratchett book Snuff

Source: Snuff

“People who think that they are being "exploited" should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: "Good riddance?"”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Random thoughts http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell042902.asp, Jewish World Review, April 29, 2002
2000s

“I think many people ill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.”

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