Best suicide & order Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.”

Ifs Light Order Speak Sin Ethics Suicide Mercury Investigating Vapour

Book:Notebooks, 1914-1916

Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916

“Unfortunately, catastrophes or scandalous disclosures always have to happen before humanity realises that it is only its own mistakes that have led it into misfortune. These are all the more difficult to rectify, because in the main they have been made by the authorities, who will not commit suicide themselves, but in order to save their own skins, they would rather that all Life should perish before they acknowledge their errors.”

Source: The Fertile Earth – Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry: Volume 3 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series

“To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.”

Men Doe Order Dies Evil Poverty Trouble Suicide Brave Painful Coward Cowardice Honorable Brave Man

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.”

“We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.”

Knows War Would Be Today Form Order Term Air Achieve Example Ocean Benefits Survival Bases Suicide Environmental Nuclear Pollution Short Term Nuclear War

Book:Path To Tranquility

Source: Path To Tranquility

“Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness of writing. I think it is very usual and natural for a writer to commit suicide, because in order to keep on writing he must be a very strong person.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Persons Order Asks Strong Natural Suicide Commit Vanity Usual Very Strong Nothingness Strong Person

Author:Kobo Abe

“Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?”

Men Said Order Fire Risk Window Suicide Every Man Guilty Preserves Taking Risks Risk It Risk-taking Great Risk Risk And Failure Chance And Risk Risking Your Life Risk And Success

Book:The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“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.”

Ifs Looks Ideas Stories Order Choices Social Lines Moral Five Lessons Murder Suicide Narrative Multiple Sermons Shifting Select Freeze Imposition Multiple Choice Moral Lessons

Author:Joan Didion

“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.”

Children Order Grace Sorrow Despair Depression Suicide Errors Depth Vices Stupidity Disillusionment Nausea

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.”

Order Danger Suicide Patient Dues Mysterious Etc Conception Imaginary Disgrace Hallucinations Delirious

Book:Suicide

Source: Suicide

“To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.”

Men Pain Order Dies Poverty Sadness Sad Suicide Brave Coward Brave Man Disagreeable

Author:Aristotle

“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.”

Needs Giving Persons Has Beens Body Might Pain Lasts Order Dies Effort Growing Devil Suicide Wounds Representation Psychics Torment Suicidal Outlets Tangible Exorcism

Author:Phillip Lopate

“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”

“Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example”

Moving Order Enemy Fire Military Example Suicide Moving Forward Folly Officers Halt Infantry

Author:George S. Patton

“They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?”

World Pain Death Order Suicide Famine

Book:The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

Source: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

“Hitler gave us orders - and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share.”

Should Order Alive Share Bears Should Have Suicide Guilt Commit

Author:Wilhelm Keitel

“I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.”

People World War Order Enemy Suicide Starting Soldier Commit Block War Of The Worlds World War Ii Troops Arrivals Torches Powder Citadels

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“Maybe comfort exists in believing there is order in the world, even when someone is making the most disorderly decision we know: running toward death instead of away from it. In their absence, we're left trying to pin meaning to air.”

Death Order Loss Fate Suicide

Author:Kate Fagan

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