Suicide Quotes - Page 28

• A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.

  Brian Crozier

  Faces, Doe, Unfree

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• Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Loyalty, Men, Evil

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.

  Thomas Szasz

  Addiction, Drug, Facts

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.168, Syracuse University Press

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• When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem.

  Johnny Isakson

  Years, Serious, Veteran

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• Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered from periodic insanity - brought on, so some averred, by the pains of love or the unintended effects of a love philtre.

  Lucretius

  Pain, Insanity, Needs

  " A History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell, (Book I, Part III, Chapter XXVII), 1945.

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• In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and ideological 'Playboyery' had led him. I vividly remember visiting him in Washington, fat, slightly tight, coming into the room looking like a broken-down butler with his master, the little Communist, Clementis, - and saying in a loud voice: 'Has anyone seen an Iron Curtain? I haven't.' Well, he has now.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Voice, Iron, Views

  "Like it was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge". Book by Malcolm Muggeridge, p. 255, 1981.

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• For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

  Isak Dinesen

  Dream, People, Way

  Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen (1987). “On Modern Marriage and Other Observations”

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• I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that [American troops] have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Wall, Troops, Baghdad

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• Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

  Philip Roth

  Writing, Roles, Performances

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• The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.

  Benito Mussolini

  Life And Love, Struggle, Hands

  "The Doctrine of Fascism". Book by Benito Mussolini, 1932.

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• You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Accomplishment, Weakness, Fortitude

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• Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

  Cesare Pavese

  Sadism, Murderer, Masochism

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

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• Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

  Cesare Pavese

  Ambition, Difficulty, Committed

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.73, Transaction Publishers

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• People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.

  Erich Fromm

  Revenge, Passion, People

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Survival, Records, Notes

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• You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Daughter, Brother, Men

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• There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Rights, Bills, Pact

  "Terminiello v. City of Chicago, 337 U.S. 1". Dissenting opinion, 1949.

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• I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide - the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enough of a compensation to atone for its dominantly burthensome quality.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Quality, Reason Why, Enough

  Letter to August Derleth (25 December 1930), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 584), 1996.

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• In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead.

  Eric Clapton

  Drinking, Alcohol, Able

  "Eric Clapton: The Autobiography". Book by Eric Clapton, October 9, 2007.

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• I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Over The Edge, Edges, Bubbles

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1917). “Our Square and the People in it”

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• I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  War, Add, Nuclear

  "Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking". Book by Derek Leebaert and Timothy Dickinson, p. 68, 1992.

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• I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stupid, Eye, Optimistic

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• 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

  Atmosphere, Example, Way

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “Karmayogin”, p.132, editionNEXT.com

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• If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Light, Order, Vapour

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.91, University of Chicago Press

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• People don't die from suicide, they die from sadness.

  Timothy Long

  Sadness, People, Dying

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