Quotes with suicide

  • Baby this town rips the bones from your back It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap We gotta get out while we're young 'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.
  • AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
  • People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.
  • There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
  • Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
  • Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
  • The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
  • A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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  • Hans Selye Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
    Hans Selye
    Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and scientist (1907 - 1982)
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  • Bertrand Russell Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • E. B. White A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Arthur Miller A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Susan Sontag AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Cesare Pavese At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Baby this town rips the bones from your back It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap We gotta get out while we're young 'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.
    Born to Run (1974)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Arnold Toynbee Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • Emile Durkheim Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Julie Burchill Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Jeanette Winterson History is not a suicide note, it is a record of our survival.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Erma Bombeck Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Ezra Pound I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Lord Chesterfield I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Antonin Artaud I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Bill Skarsgard I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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