Quotes about suicide
suicide murder these-days
That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide. Eugene Ionesco
suicide real prevention
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over. Ernest Hemingway
suicide doctors ethical-issues
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago. Ezekiel Emanuel
suicide use physicians
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.
suicide technology needs
Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.
suicide motivation views
By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.
suicide murderer
A murderer is only an extroverted suicide. Graham Chapman
suicide suicidal men
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature. Graham Greene
suicide suicidal erosion
Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death. Gerald Durrell
suicide space risk
Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when. A planetary culture that does not develop spacefaring is courting suicide. All our history, all our social progress and growing insight will be for nothing if we perish. No risk of this kind, however small it might be argued to be, is worth taking, and no cost to prevent it is too great. No level of risk is acceptable when it comes to all or nothing survival. Gregory Benford
suicide angel home
His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully. Gregory Maguire
suicide mean opposites
Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. Huey Newton
suicide self dignity
But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.
suicide giving bombers
The terrorism of the suicide bomber and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent. To say otherwise (as either side might) is to give one moral superiority over the other, and thus serve to perpetuate the horrors of our time. Howard Zinn
suicide writing notes
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. Gore Vidal
suicide art illustration
A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of them illustrate a collection of gruesome stories, murders and suicides which contrast with the images used. There is a contrast between the message carried by the text and that suppressed by the illustration. Gerhard Richter
suicide suicidal doe
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. Friedrich Nietzsche
suicide wicked poison
"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."
suicide alive reputation
The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.
suicide night thinking
Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.
suicide people criticism
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people. George Bernard Shaw
suicide book suicidal
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka
suicide suicidal sitting-still
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.
suicide mean understanding
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.
suicide book grieving
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
suicide revenge passion
People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent. Erich Fromm
suicide thinking way
I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to. Eric Burdon
suicide able moments
In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead. Eric Clapton
suicide sacrifice long
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. Franz Liszt
suicide mean adversity
Man must be able to recover, to win out, triumph over adversity. And I don't mean just the little adversity like paying his room rent or something. But those deep, deep human adversities because something he has faith in has turned to ashes. Where someone he loves turns out to be just another joke. You get to the point of suicide. But you can bounce back - they can't completely destroy you. Frank Capra
suicide past life-is
Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.
suicide children choices-made
Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice - made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life. George W. Bush
suicide pain believe
First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules. And the idea of using a controlled substance to end somebody's life is something I don't agree with. I can see the idea of using controlled substances to ease somebody's pain. That makes sense.