“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.” ThinkingWayWantLooksDoeEndsHappensAgeYoungFiveTwentiesSuicideRoundsCommitOld AgeMistTwenty Five Book:Other people: a mystery story Source: Other people: a mystery story
“Now that you are dead, you are splendid. Photographs of people who have just died are worth twenty percent more, and for suicides there is an additional five percent. Now that you are dead you are much in demand.” PeopleFiveDemandPercentDiedTwentiesSuicidePhotographSplendid Author:Kobo Abe
“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.” ChildrenTodayTurnsCultureParentLinesMy OwnRoomsTalkingClassPovertyGoneFiveTeacherViolenceGenerationsChildhoodDrugConcernSuicideMadAddAddictionMotherhoodAidsFeaturesUsaPregnancyTeenageCleaningGangHomelessnessHomeworkAnorexiaDrug AddictionDrug AddictAdventGumChewingBulimiaSnapshotsHomicideParents And TeachersChewing GumTeenage PregnancyGang ViolenceAnorexia And Bulimia Author:Mary Blakely
“We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.” LooksChoicesSocialMoralFiveLessonsMurderSuicideMultipleSermonsSelectMultiple ChoiceMoral Lessons Book:The White Album Source: The White Album
“As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling.” YearsEndsMatterFactsFiveSuicideFive YearsTranslationsElderlyObamacareMatter Of FactEnd Of LifeCounseling Author:Rafael Cruz
“Middle class people, the bourgeoisie, they are also feeling frightened at the moment. Some fear losing their fortunes; some go bankrupt; some are thinking about suicide. They don't know if they will retain the beautiful house that they bought, or what will happen to the five family cars.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMomentsFeelingsHappensBeautifulHouseClassFiveMiddleCarLosingSuicideFortuneMiddle ClassFrightenedBourgeoisie Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“It is manifestly idiotic to believe that Israel, with five million Jewish citizens and one million Arab citizens, will concede to the return of four million refugees. It will not happen. We can wish it, we can think it's just, that it's moral - it will not happen. No country commits suicide.” ThinkingBelieveCountryHappensWishMoralMillionsFiveFourReturnCitizensSuicideIsraelCommitRefugeeIdiotic Author:Uri Avnery
“What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.” KnowsPersonsAgeDiesFiveDrugBehaviorTwentiesSuicideAccidentsUnhappinessOddsRecklessTwenty FiveOverdoseLeukemia Book:Limitations Source: Limitations
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.” IfsLooksIdeasStoriesOrderChoicesSocialLinesMoralFiveLessonsMurderSuicideNarrativeMultipleSermonsShiftingSelectFreezeImpositionMultiple ChoiceMoral Lessons Author:Joan Didion
“I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn’t let me.” YearsIdeasWantedJesusFeltInterestChristSleepFiveTasteJesus ChristLet MeSuicideNo IdeaFive YearsGet AwayInferiorsLackingPlaces To Go Author:Charles Bukowski
“As Deborah Rhode describes, “When 1,100 Michigan elementary students were asked to describe what life would be like if they were the opposite sex, over 40 percent of the girls saw advantages to being male; they would have better jobs, higher incomes, and more respect. Ninety-five percent of the boys saw no advantage to being female, and a substantial number thought suicide would be preferable.”” IfsWould BeJobsGirlSexNumbersBoysFiveSawsStudentsHigherPercentAdvantageFemaleOppositesSuicideMalesIncomeNinetyMichiganBetter Jobs Author:Deborah Rhode
“When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it.” BelieveKindLittlesSelfI BelieveSidesFiveDrinkSuicideDrinkingViolentEnjoyedThirtyDestructiveBoozeSelf Destructive Author:John Lennon