“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.” IfsWorldHumansLongEnoughEyeWishRaceWonderStupidSuicideCommitOptimisticLiftsHuman Race Book:Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters
“When my reputation was at its height, classmates insulted me right to my face as I walked down the hall. When a teacher called on me, boys snickered and girls rolled their eyes. My body and face burned. I felt mortified. I contemplated suicide.” BodyEyeFacesGirlFeltBoysTeacherSuicideReputationHeightHallsBurnedInsultedClassmates Author:Leora Tanenbaum
“Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.” PeopleWorldHeartChildrenReasonHomeEyeEvilBloodBrokenDrinkSuicideDrivenRingsGravesInnocenceBroken HeartVillainShedHungWomanhoodManhoodCursedBlindedBankruptcyDishonorVillainyWedding RingDishonourCrepesDefilement Author:Evangeline Booth
“Assassination, kidnappings and suicide attacks have become too much the standard operating procedure in the Islamic world. So much so that the name of Islam itself has been diminished in the eyes of many people. It is the responsibility of all of us, and particularly those in the Islamic world who care about their religion, to rescue it from its increased association with violence.” PeopleWorldEyeCareResponsibilityViolenceSuicideIslamIslamicKidnapping Author:John F. Kerry
“It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.” LittlesEnoughEyeStudySuicideDistanceFollowingBrilliantCommitDullContradictionUncertainProvokingAngleCurvesOutrageousPlungeLameUnheard Book:The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader Source: The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader
“I wanted to be wanted and he was very beautiful, kissed with his eyes closed, and only felt good while moving. You could drown in those eyes, I said, so it’s summer, so it’s suicide, so we’re helpless in sleep and struggling at the bottom of the pool.” SaidEyeWantedBeautifulMovingFeltSleepStruggleSummerSuicideBottomHis EyesPoolHelplessVery Beautiful Author:Richard Siken
“I believe in equality for everyone. I believe everyone should have the right to love and commit to whomever they want. [...] All I know is that in God's eyes we are all the same. I just wish we could see through the eyes of God more often.” KnowsWantInspirationalShouldBelieveMotivationalEyeI BelieveWishHealthyShould HaveSuicideI Believe InCommitWell BeingSuicidal ThoughtsThrough The Eyes Author:LeAnn Rimes
“Why do they bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? "Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself."” WantEyeGuyHurtWatchesHumorousSuicideBotherThis GuyWant HimDeath Row Book:Napalm & Silly Putty Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes 'till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.” WayStillsBodyEyeSoundImagineRocksSuicideThrowingCrashCliffsSelf HarmI'm BackThrowing Things Author:Bjork
“I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness... I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.” PeopleRealEnoughWholeHandsEyeLostFeltMy OwnBusinessMillionsGroupsSeaGreatnessDivineLuckyShadowSuicideDollarsRingsFinanceUrgesSensationsCrashMillion DollarsHysteriaWithout HopeCanyonsAmbulanceFaintingMarket CrashHope DeathStock Market Crash Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.” KnowsHardEyeStruggleKnowingTroubleLove YouCryMinesPressureSuicideNineThis LifeNot KnowingOne LoveMamaThugMy StruggleThug Life Author:Tupac Shakur
“Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!” YearsTwoRealEyeKidsPastYoungFoundChanceMy OwnEventsShapesYears AgoSuicideBottomWideReal LifeCaliforniaEncountersFortyCliffsNephewLandmarksMansonEyes Wide OpenChance Encounters Author:Andrew Gross