Quotes about suicide
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
suicide way
The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in. Ralph Waldo Emerson
suicide religion spirituality
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Ralph Waldo Emerson
suicide courage ignorance
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Les Brown
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 country suicidal
There is no madder nation than Japan. ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country. L. Ron Hubbard
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 heart bars
That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before. Simone de Beauvoir
suicide hate reality
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality. Simone de Beauvoir
suicide atheist war
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs. Simon Hoggart
suicide running pain
Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year. Simon Cowell
suicide flames diving
Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames. Rick Riordan
suicide night light
Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide. Richard Brautigan
suicide suicidal office
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. Rem Koolhaas
suicide atmosphere example
Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide. Sri Aurobindo
suicide peace hate
Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste. Roger McGuinn
suicide giving-up thinking
I have long believed that Israel should seek to give up the so-called Occupied Territories in return for security, and that a Palestinian state should be established. I have felt that way all my life. I think it is unreasonable to ask the Israelis to do this in a context where there is no guarantee at all that suicide bombers will be controlled. Russ Feingold
suicide country compassion
There is no country on earth that can touch us in charitable efforts, in disaster relief efforts, in doing everything to help. We do not live under a suicide pact in the name of compassion, because you see what's incorporated in all this is that we're guilty of something. And we're not. We lead the world in goodness. Rush Limbaugh
suicide suicidal opportunity
I'm driven. I have the opportunity to change people's lives. Thomas Menino
suicide laughter war
I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war? Rajneesh
suicide remember problem
If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem. Robin Williams
suicide wind voice
One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice - I call it the 'lower power' - goes, 'Hey. Just a taste. Just one.' I drank it, and there was that brief moment of 'Oh, I'm okay!' But it escalated so quickly. Within a week I was buying so many bottles I sounded like a wind chime walking down the street. Robin Williams
suicide children philosophical
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression. Robert Nozick
suicide people favorite-places
Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow. Rob Thurman