Committing Suicide Quotes - Page 3

• I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Illustration, Married

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.36, Vintage

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• 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.

  Walker Percy

  Suicide, Artist, Twenties

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

  Henri Barbusse

  Suicide, Army, Two

  Henri Barbusse (1929). “Under Fire: The Story of a Squad”, p.8, Lulu.com

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• A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

  Ayn Rand

  Suicide, Economics, Economy

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.239, Penguin

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• The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Suicide, Military

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• Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and died very quickly on October, 12, 1921." Joe Fisher continued the research: Emilia died "fourteen months before Paulo's birth. He took on Emilia's self destructive instincts. Paulo made several attempts to kill himself before committing suicide on September 5, 1966 by setting himself on fire.

  Ian Stevenson

  Suicide, Suicidal, Self

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• You seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties." "Yeah. Like I've always wanted to destroy the Nine Worlds while committing suicide." "Well, there's no need to be rude," protested Sif.

  Joanne Harris

  Suicide, Rude, Needs

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• You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.

  Antonio Porchia

  Suicide, Thinking, Killing

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• A detective who uses his deductive powers to corner a suspect and then does nothing to stop them from committing suicide is no better than a murderer himself. - Kudo Shinichi

  Gosho Aoyama

  Suicide, Detectives, Doe

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• In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

  Roberto Bolano

  Suicide, Political, Climate

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• All I wanted to do was help kids not feel alone, and stop kids from committing suicide.

  Kid Cudi

  Suicide, Kids, Helping

  "Kid Cudi Tells Arsenio Hall What He Would Change About Hip Hop, Takes Jab At Drake", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2014.

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• I always believe when your political opponents are committing suicide, there's no reason to murder them.

  John Boehner

  Suicide, Believe, Political

  "Attack on President Bush Continues Past SCHIP Veto Override Vote" by Major Garrett and Chad Pergram, www.foxnews.com. October 19, 2007.

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• Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.

  Boy George

  Suicide, Doors, Hunger Strike

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'

  Pope Francis

  Suicide, Happy Life, Thinking

  "12* Powerful Climate Allies That GOP Denier Leaders Can’t Ignore" by Amanda Hanley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2014.

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• The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Suicide, Survival, Tragedy

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right-wing women: the politics of domesticated females”

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• If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

  Jim Butcher

  Suicide, Feel Better, Coward

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.352, Penguin

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• Moments is about a girl dying and her boyfriend committing suicide because he can't live without her

  Ed Sheeran

  Girl, Suicide, Dying

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