Quotes about suicide
suicide mind calories
The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide. Marya Hornbacher
suicide sex body
For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder. Marshall McLuhan
suicide self people
Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be eagerly followed. Few people will commit suicide without a push. And fewer still will pay good money to be told to do what is against human nature and self-interest to do. Paul Samuelson
suicide hell satanism
With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide, Pat Buchanan
suicide government people
We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate sense 'represent' the majority of the people. But, even if it did, even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority. No organicist metaphor, no irrelevant bromide that 'we are all part of one another,' must be permitted to obscure this basic fact. Murray Rothbard
suicide memories addiction
Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide. Mohsin Hamid
suicide intellectual want
If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences. Nancy Pearcey
suicide suicidal important
Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are. Keira Knightley
suicide weapons normal
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. Karl A. Menninger
suicide opposites light
I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which only death appears as a pinprick of light: in other words, the exact opposite of the normal condition of life. Julian Barnes
suicide grief heart
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release. Mark Twain
suicide suicidal people
But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.
suicide powerful humorous
I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.
suicide philosophy philosophical
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. Martin Heidegger
suicide jesus ask-me
Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me. Marsha Norman
suicide marine hostage-crisis
Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Mark McKinnon
suicide suicidal next-day
Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive. Nick Hornby
suicide virginia orange
A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool.
suicide strong jumping
[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queuejumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the Post Office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, “Excuse me, I was here first.” They don't say, “You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That would be a bit strong.
suicide tiny committed
I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.
suicide being-yourself self-esteem
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. Marva Collins
suicide monday suicidal
When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again. Marilyn Monroe
suicide age midnight
But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide. Martin Luther King, Jr.
suicide exercise past
Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.
suicide spiritual government
Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.
suicide spiritual beloved-community
The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.
suicide feel-better gun
I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers in preventing suicide. It's a very good thing to decrease suicide but we should care at least a little if I'm not killing myself because I feel better or if I just can't remember where I put the damn gun. Mark Vonnegut
suicide war gun
More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined. Nicholas D. Kristof
suicide would-be bombers
On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.' Mitt Romney
suicide wonder psychological
What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession. R. D. Laing
suicide artistic-life long
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide. Oscar Wilde
suicide fire may
Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
suicide curiosity
Curiosity is its own suicide ...