Quotes about suicide
suicide suicidal needs
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. Albert Camus
suicide philosophy philosophical
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Albert Camus
suicide sacrifice men
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never! Albert Camus
suicide coffee optimistic
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? Albert Camus
suicide princess missions
She's the princess. She commanded and I obeyed!"-Loki "You don't obey a suicide mission!"-Finn Amanda Hocking
suicide struggle taken
Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded his self murder, and go through the act and the death struggle time after time with ghastly persistence... They remain conscious - often entangled in the final scene of the earth life for a very long time, unaware that they have lost the physical body. Annie Besant
suicide mistake profound
I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high. Anna Wickham
suicide men
And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin? D. H. Lawrence
suicide thinking mind
Think of the old cliché about "the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master." This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in the head. David Foster Wallace
suicide spiritual book
Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever reducing his characters to mouthpieces or his books to tracts. His concern was always what it is to be a human being—that is, how to be an actual *person*, someone whose life is informed by values and principles, instead of just an especially shrewd kind of self-preserving animal. David Foster Wallace
suicide thinking garbage-disposal
she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm. David Foster Wallace
suicide peace war
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. Dwight D. Eisenhower
suicide rivers shame
I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253) Dorothy Allison
suicide dumb pretending
Suicide is kinda dumb to me. If I wanna kill myself I will. It's not hard to die, I could do it like right now. But why is everybody pretending like everything's ok, Everything's not ok. We are more connected than we've ever been, But I feel more alone than I've ever been. Donald Glover
suicide giving-up writing
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. Dale Carnegie
suicide race law
I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace is the only alternative to a constant race in armaments-including atomic armaments-and to other disruptive practices that will bring the nations participating in them on either side to a common ruin, the equivalent of universal suicide. Cordell Hull
suicide running cheating
Lying and cheating in advertising, in the long run, are commercial suicide. Dishonesty in advertising destroys not only confidence in advertising, but also in the medium which carries the dishonest advertisement. . . . No one can be ill in a community without endangering others; no advertiser can be dishonest without casting suspicion upon others.
suicide thinking perfect
I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life. Damien Hirst
suicide marijuana simple
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple. Damien Hirst
suicide spring real
in a middle of a room stands a suicide sniffing a Paper rose smiling to a self "somewhere it is Spring and sometimes people are in real:imagine somewhere real flowers,but I can't imagine real flowers for if I could,they would somehow not Be real" (so he smiles smiling)"but I will not everywhere be real to you in a moment" The is blond with small hands "& everything is easier than I had guessed everything would be;even remembering the way who looked at whom first,anyhow dancing e. e. cummings
suicide country artist
Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide;and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself whoever himself may be is immortal;and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality. e. e. cummings
suicide suicidal presidential
A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour. E. B. White
suicide suicidal should
God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves. Anatole France
suicide men thinking
The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you think you are doing an act of justice. But they will only suck you dry, wear out your energy, nourish themselves on your ideas. After being the most compassionate man in the world, I say to you today: Let the weak ones die, let them commit suicide. Anais Nin
suicide june imagination
At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness. Anais Nin
suicide sacrifice triumph
To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice. Anais Nin
suicide poison afternoon
After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs. Anne Fortier
suicide gin-and-tonic gin
Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic. Chuck Palahniuk
suicide dying way
You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying. Chuck Palahniuk
suicide differences literature
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. Chuck Palahniuk
suicide missing stories
Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide. Chuck Palahniuk
suicide contagious
Suicide is very contagious. Chuck Palahniuk
suicide sense-of-humor bent
Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left. Chuck Palahniuk