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 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 rights names
Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles. Walter Lippmann
suicide men today
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week. Voltaire
suicide self people
The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs. William Styron
suicide pain prevention
The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.
suicide war interesting
The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace. William Ralph Inge
suicide free-will possibility
It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over! Yogi Berra
suicide grief youth
Youth knows no remedy for grief but death. Winifred Holtby
suicide humiliation
Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide. William S. Burroughs
suicide voice mad
I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices Virginia Woolf
suicide men politics
Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide. Woodrow Wilson
suicide men political
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
suicide unhappy brooklyn
Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy. Woody Allen
suicide suicidal men
I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide. William James
suicide murder
To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.
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 thinking design
I think Willa Cather did a short story called "Paul's Case," and in it, when he finally commits suicide, it says, "He surrendered to the black design of things." And that's what I anticipate death will be: a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything. I think once around is enough. I don't want to start it all over again. Rod Serling
suicide want stuff
I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic. Robert Wyatt