Quotes about suicide
suicide hands hair
The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand. Rita Mae Brown
suicide men white-man
The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem. Rick Moody
suicide octopus beaks
That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak. Richard Madeley
suicide thinking spirit
…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful. Richard Matheson
suicide littles invited
Doesn't suicide seem a little like going where you haven't been invited? Richard Eberhart
suicide marketing different
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. Thornton Wilder
suicide believe science
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. Thomas Huxley
suicide argument guinea
The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance . Thomas Huxley
suicide jobs taught-us
Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job. Thomas Browne
suicide bombers nuclear
Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. Thomas Sowell
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 self-harm suicidal
A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind. Susanna Kaysen
suicide girl-interrupted kitchen
Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy. Susanna Kaysen
suicide sleep soul
Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone. Sophocles
suicide suicidal air
... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ. Stephen King
suicide democracy levels
Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you. Stefan Molyneux
suicide grief perspective
From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others. Stanley Hauerwas
suicide sweet art
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive. Stanley Kunitz
suicide suicidal long
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation. Soren Kierkegaard
suicide self-harm accomplishment
The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment. Sylvia Plath
suicide past thinking
If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide. But the cold reasoning mass of gray entrail in my cranium which parrots, ‘I think, therefore I am,’ whispers that there is always the turning, the upgrade, the new slant. And so I wait. Sylvia Plath
suicide real character
I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide. Sylvia Plath
suicide choices doubt
Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending. Sylvia Plath
suicide coffee orange-juice
Over coffee and orange juice the embryonic suicide brightens visibly. Sylvia Plath
suicide morning rain
God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good. Sylvia Plath
suicide art suicidal
I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. Sylvia Plath
suicide looks mental-health
If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it. Rosalynn Carter
suicide reading sick
I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis. Rosanne Cash
suicide stress divorce
Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Ron Wyden
suicide children people
The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering are everywhere. Ravi Zacharias
suicide self-harm bad-day
It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know, I just want to hide or scream or bleed or something, and...all that... Neil Gaiman
suicide mean technology
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
suicide bombs tanks
Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb Matthieu Ricard