Commit Quotes - Page 29

• 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, Sacrifice, Triumph

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• To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful--

  John Gardner

  Suicide, Art, Pain

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• If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

  Hakim Bey

  Terrorism, Crime, Resonance

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.19, Autonomedia

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• The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Religion, Spirituality

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• The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions … and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the “divine irresponsibility” of the condemned man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Suicide, Men, Fascination

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• Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fashion, Responsibility, Animal

  "The Abolition Of Torture". newrepublic.com. December 19, 2005.

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• When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

  Lord Byron

  Mean, Love Is, People

  "Don Juan". Poem by Lord Byron, 1818-1824.

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• Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Suspense, Ends

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.379

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• If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Darkness, Les Mis

  "Les Misérables". Book by Victor Hugo. Chapter IV: Works Answer Words, 1862.

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• For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Political, Crime

  Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian (2010). “Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World”, p.73, Macmillan

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• I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just get so tired of Him getting the credit for things the human race achieves through its own effort. Now, there simply is no God. There's only man. And it's he who makes miracles.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Believe, Tired, Men

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• You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Suicide, Dying, Way

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Change, Fall, Self

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• Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

  Emilie Autumn

  Suicide, Suicidal, People

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• Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.

  Muriel Barbery

  Suicide, Worry, World

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• Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicide, Succeed, Reason

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• Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Believe, Finals, Lessons

  "Fictional character: Abbe Faria". "The Count of Monte Cristo", www.imdb.com. January 23, 2002.

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• I can’t believe this night. I was supposed to be applauded and instead, I’m ruined. I swear to God in heaven if I ever see that man again, I will commit murder. (Tory) Well, if you need help moving the body, you know where Kim and I live. (Pam)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Moving, Night

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.483, Macmillan

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• Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

  Stella Gibbons

  Rudeness, Manners, Cold Comfort Farm

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it creates enough space for men to commit terrible folly, from which the survivors learn through disaster.

  Joel Shepherd

  Mistake, Men, Space

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• Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearly commit murder to arouse him enough to attack her.

  Gena Showalter

  Dancing, Murder, Enough

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Kiss”, p.53, HQN Books

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• You never know the biggest day of your life is your biggest day, not until it’s happening. You don’t recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you’re right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there’s not enough time because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Heart, Perfect Days, Broken

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• I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Stupidity

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Men, Light

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Suicide, Baby, Blow

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing

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