“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?” MenMindWellsReasonEffortFashionDespairDiedSuicideBurdenRageInstanceNeverthelessRemorseMadmenComposureDiscreet Book:ESSAYS ON SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL Source: ESSAYS ON SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL
“Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.” PeopleWayMayMadeEndsPastFormCultureHouseSexUnderstandingEffortSecretPovertyPathGreaterDyingCircumstancesSuicideHistoricalBoundsYieldBritish History Author:David Cannadine
“There is no country on earth that can touch us in charitable efforts, in disaster relief efforts, in doing everything to help. We do not live under a suicide pact in the name of compassion, because you see what's incorporated in all this is that we're guilty of something. And we're not. We lead the world in goodness.” WorldCountryHelpingEarthNamesEffortCompassionGoodnessSuicideDisasterGuiltyReliefCharitablePactDisaster Relief Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren't off on some suicide effort, certainly [with Friendship 7].” EffortSuccessfulSuicideMissions Author:John Glenn
“There had been a number of failures but we weren't going out to ride a failure. And we felt they'd corrected all the difficulties with the boosters before that time and the launch problems. And so we had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren't off on some suicide effort, certainly.” ProblemFeltNumbersEffortSuccessfulDifficultySuicideMissionsGoing Out Author:John Glenn
“Why would I strike America and invite a retaliatory counterstrike that would put an end to my regime? Keep in mind, the whole point of this - my entire strategy, all our efforts and the hardships we have borne - is to ensure that my regime and I survive. Why would I risk that? I believe in assassination, not suicide.” MindBelieveI BelieveEffortRiskSuicideStrategyHardship Author:Kim Jong-un
“I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body, a representation, to put it outside himself. A need to convert inner torment into some outward tangible wound that all could see. It was almost as though suicide were a last-ditch effort at exorcism, in which the person sacrificed his life in order that the devil inside might die.” NeedsGivingPersonsHas BeensBodyMightPainLastsOrderDiesEffortGrowingDevilSuicideWoundsRepresentationPsychicsTormentSuicidalOutletsTangibleExorcism Author:Phillip Lopate
“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.” ThinkingWritingMeanArtEnoughNaturalEffortSweetFlowSuicideCommitBlockContradictionOver ItAfflictionConstructiveReconcileMonotonousWriter's BlockFrictionImbalance Author:Stanley Kunitz
“The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.” EffortOfficeSuicideSuicidal Author:Rem Koolhaas
“Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.” PeopleTodayPastFormPoliticalBlackEffortLeaderMoralExerciseSuicidePrivilegeIndifferenceVotingApathyPollsBlack HistoryApatheticMoral Failure Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury
“Optimism is an effort.” EffortMeditationBuddhismDepressionOptimismSuicidePessimismOptimistStoicismPessimist Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana