Suicide Quotes - Page 9

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  Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is best to live however one can be.

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Motivational, Healthy

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• I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and inaccessible.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Fall, Glasses, Feels

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever”, p.131, Profile Books

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• I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.

  Anne Sexton

  Thinking, Miracle, Killing

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.

  Thomas Sherlock

  Men, Body, Poison

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• "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Mary Pickford

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Encouragement

  "Why Not Try God?". "St. Petersburg Times" Newspaper, sect. 2, (p. 3), January 25, 1936.

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• There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.

  James Franco

  Running, School, Past

  Source: i-d.vice.com

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• To me there are two Hitlers: one who existed until the end of the French war; the other begins with the Russian campaign. In the beginning he was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. The important thing to remember is that the first Hitler, the man who I knew until the end of the French war, had much charm and goodwill. He was always frank. The second Hitler, who existed from the beginning of the Russian campaign until his suicide, was always suspicious, easily upset, and tense. He was distrustful to an extreme degree.

  Hermann Goring

  War, Men, Two

  Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• Most ISIS members are irreconcilable. Once they've bitten that bug, that cultish bug, they would prefer to die. They're going to be given the opportunity, no one's going to get out alive from Iraq and Syria now. They make sure everyone's a suicide bomber now.

  Malcolm Wrightson Nance

  Opportunity, Syria

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.

  Martin Amis

  Thinking, Age, Twenties

  Martin Amis (1981). “Other people: a mystery story”, Jonathan Cape

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• When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds ... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?

  David Hume

  Fashion, Men, Effort

  David Hume (1799). “ESSAYS ON SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL”, p.60

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• To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Love, Giving Up, Disease

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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• People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

  T. H. White

  People, Weakness, Commit

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.447, Penguin

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• The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide.

  William Carlos Williams

  Men, Perfect, Action

  "Imaginations".

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• We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.

  Derrick Jensen

  Children, Mean, Other Cultures

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros”, p.1, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• And should men name me dead, I beg ye, say "Nay, he but wearied here, and went away.

  Kenneth Rand

  Men, Names, Should

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• I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.

  Sonny Rollins

  Thinking, Using Resources, People

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• The problem with suicide is that it seems so flamboyant. It's camp. You have to be a bit of a drama queen to ever seriously consider it.

  Craig Ferguson

  Queens, Drama, Problem

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.21, Chronicle Books

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• It's a long shot, it's suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss Peeta full on the mouth. His whole body starts shuddering, but I keep my lips pressed to his until I have to come up for air. My hands slide up his wrists to clasp his. "Don't let him take you from me." Peeta's panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging his head. "No. I don't want to. . ." I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Kissing, Fighting

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.314, Scholastic Inc.

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• Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.

  Douglas Coupland

  Warrior, People, Mind

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• The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you think you are doing an act of justice. But they will only suck you dry, wear out your energy, nourish themselves on your ideas. After being the most compassionate man in the world, I say to you today: Let the weak ones die, let them commit suicide.

  Anais Nin

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

  Oriana Fallaci

  Asking, Remember, Dare

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• Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Science, Belief

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.422, Cambridge University Press

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• We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  War, Politics, Murder

  In Observer 4 May 1930

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• 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

  Sweet, Art, Block

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