“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
“You know the worst: your wills are fickle, Your values blurred, your hearts impure And your past life a ruined church-- But let your poison be your cure.” KnowsHeartPastValuesChurchWorstSuicideCuresPoisonOur PastRuinedYour PastPast LifeFickle Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.” PeopleWorldProblemRunningSchoolPastAchieveYouthExpectationsHigh SchoolSuicideTrainHigh Expectations Author:James Franco
“No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt” YearsAgeWantedPastGamesFunHurtNeededWalkingSuicideGreedBoringOld AgeBombsRelaxSwimmingGreedyHuntersGonzoSuicide NoteYears Past Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.” LittlesCarePastHouseLosesDifferencesStepsMorningLaughingAliveDoorsFrontsOrdinaryBreathsSuicideLeavingEightClockChestsExesNothing To LoseFront Doors Book:Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.” IfsThinkingWellsMayMadePastWaitingColdMassEmptySuicideCommitReasoningGrayShellsParrotsEmpty Shell Author:Sylvia Plath
“Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.” SometimesPastLife IsDiesHavensVictimSuicideFoulTempting Author:F. Sionil José
“I can't deceive myself out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.” IfsWellsMayMadeI CanRealMatterCharacterLightPastRoomsFateEmptySuicideCommitRealizationClockElectricDeceivingShellsCheerfulEnthusiasticBrillianceStarksYour RoomElectric LightClock TickingEmpty Shell Author:Sylvia Plath
“I can't really do anything about the past and all I can do is just embrace the future and try to make the most of the present. So I'm really trying to do that and doing my best every day.” InspirationalTryingI CanMotivationalPastCan DoHealthySuicideEmbraceWell BeingSuicidal Thoughts Author:Zach Sudfeld
“I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soulI hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.” FeelsPastWishChurchDangerDivineMessagesUniversalBlessedSacredSuicideHistoricalTheologyWorriedPersistenceFlamesRejectsWarningMaryVirginsRemorseMenaceOrnamentsInnovatorsLucyChapelTrue FaithLiturgy Author:Pope Pius XII
“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
“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