Quotes about suicide
suicide character feelings
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. Walter Benjamin
suicide design imitation
Imitation can be commercial suicide. William Bernbach
suicide thinking opposites
They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide. Walker Percy
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.
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 baby dog
Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger. Konrad Lorenz
suicide growth population
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.
suicide ignorance envy
Imitation is suicide, envy is ignorance. Ralph Ellison
suicide imitation bits
In imitation is a bit suicide. Ralph Waldo Emerson
suicide fall nations
A nation never falls but by suicide.
suicide way
The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.
suicide religion spirituality
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
suicide courage ignorance
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
suicide truth honesty
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
suicide lying men
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.
suicide suicidal sunday
I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice. Lina Wertmuller
suicide spiritual jobs
People getting ready to go to jobs that they don’t like, jobs that are making them sick. You see when you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide. When you have some goal out here that you are stretching for and reaching for that takes you out of your comfort zone, you’ll find out some talents and abilities you have that you didn’t know you have. Les Brown
suicide spiritual goal
When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.
suicide hurt blood
I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. Laurie Halse Anderson
suicide suicidal men
It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life. Thomas Aquinas
suicide mirrors vanity
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors. Tennessee Williams
suicide acceptance america
The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been. Randall Terry
suicide ignorance men
There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.
suicide
Immitation is suicide.
suicide religion atheism
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. . . . Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.
suicide suicidal skepticism
Skepticism is slow suicide.