Quotes about suicide
suicide morning past
The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to. Walker Percy
suicide artist littles
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.
suicide over-it
He only who gave life has a power over it. Samuel Richardson
suicide home dissolution
It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution. Samuel Beckett
suicide world vain
This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends. Samuel Daniel
suicide people trying
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. Salman Rushdie
suicide believe imagination
The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
suicide bombers fascination
Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.
suicide believe suicidal
I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note) Wendy O. Williams
suicide pits graves
How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave. William Cowper
suicide taken kids
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. Ursula K. Le Guin
suicide children taken
No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
suicide order should-have
Hitler gave us orders - and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share. Wilhelm Keitel
suicide book
Books about suicide make lousy gifts. Wilfrid Sheed
suicide crazy tvs
Bridget who is crazy said that sometimes she thought about suicide when commercials come on during TV. She was sincere and this puzzled the guidance counselors. Stephen Chbosky
suicide men blow
Give a man a suicide bomb, he blows up once. Teach a man to suicide bomb, he also blows up once. Stephen Colbert
suicide mother waiting
I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave. Spalding Gray
suicide unique gambling
Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide. Thomas Langmann
suicide details causes
...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide. Thomas Bernhard
suicide way admiration
All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.
suicide thinking blue
So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
suicide husband wife
The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits murder. Victoria Woodhull
suicide wisdom desire
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. Victor Hugo
suicide impulse
I have a suicide impulse. Hal Holbrook
suicide men soul
What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul? Herman Melville
suicide bird might
And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.
suicide thoughtful thinking
Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide? Henry David Thoreau
suicide two tree
Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers.
suicide believe suicidal
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
suicide ties independence
I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.
suicide suicidal lines
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? Jean Genet
suicide men order
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? Jean-Jacques Rousseau
suicide suicidal waiting
I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide. Jerry Seinfeld