“America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.” MomentsAmericaLandLoversPromisePraiseSuicideEloquentDisgustedByronCommitting Suicide Book:Fact and Fiction Source: Fact and Fiction
“The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.” WorldWayTryingProblemAmericaIndependentSuicideCommit Author:Ben Bova
“We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.” LooksAmericaArtistPovertyGenerationsPoetDrugTraditionSuicideAddictionDefeatListsFrustrationGreat ArtAlcoholismMy GenerationGreat ArtistDrug AddictionDrug AddictBest Poet Author:James Dickey
“The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.” AmericaCommunityAcceptanceSuicideRateHomosexual Author:Randall Terry
“We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.” -Mrs. Karafilis” PeopleDoeLightAmericaDaughterSuicideMake SenseGreekMoodyVirgin SuicidesChristmas Lights Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.” IfsKnowsWantDreamAmericaLeaderEffectsPolicySuicideCurrentsCommittedCeaseObjectivesPaceDeclineAmerican DreamShrinksShrinking Book:America: Imagine a World without Her Source: America: Imagine a World without Her
“Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.” WantLittlesHas BeensEndsAmericaValuesMinutesDespairIllusionSuicideCommitSavingOur SocietyImpressedBipolarSeventeen Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.” WorldAmericaUsedCareersAirModernDaughterEarsThirdsSuicideLipsCommittedActiveListsMinoritiesGrandmotherIllegalIrelandPrimitiveTwinsTribesHomosexualDeafModern WorldSeekersProvincesThird WorldGypsyAsylumsBannedBachelorsCrippledCalcuttaHaresWheelchairsHandicappedNorthern IrelandBombayHostessesSpinstersCareer WomenDeaf EarsAsylum SeekersBangaloreAfrican Tribes Author:Rod Liddle
“In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.” AmericaBlackMoralViolenceCrimeIdentityNormalSuicideTraditionalImitationRoutesExtinctionRevoltHystericalDisappearanceMoral CourageExemplary Book:Civil Wars Source: Civil Wars
“America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.” LooksKindStillsTwoRunningAmericaSituationMissingBrokenSixBallsSuicidePopulationEnginesOld FashionedTruckFittingCommitting SuicideCylinders Author:Thomas McGuane