“Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.” WritingWarBeautifulDesireLanguageHurtCompassionHorrorSuicideSoldierIraqTerrorTraumaDelicateBulletsPreciseBladesSkullsShatteredIraq WarBrianBombersTurnerSuicide Bombers Author:Andrew Himes
“They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.” WallSuicideSoldierCommitBaghdad Author:Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
“A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.” IfsWayNeedsSpiritDesireStrongWaitingWaterEnemyCuttingDyingStrangeDrinkSuicideWineSoldierIndifferenceCowardFuriousCarelessnessStrong DesireWild At Heart Book:Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul Source: Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“The soldiers kill suicide bombers. Think about that. When a guys whole thing in life is to kill himself and you get there first... you are halling ass my friends.” ThinkingFirstsWholeLife IsGuyMy FriendsSuicideSoldierAssThings In LifeBombersSuicide Bombers Author:Dennis Miller
“I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.” IfsChildrenPersonsLevelsStudyHigherSuicideSoldierIraqPtsdBombersSuicide Bombers Author:Mia Bloom
“I perform regularly with a theater company called Outside the Wire who take performances of Greek tragedy to American-military audiences around the world to create discussion about PTSD and soldier suicide. It's one of the greatest things I've ever been asked to do as an actor.” WorldAudienceTragedySuicideSoldierDiscussionGreekWireGreek Tragedy Author:Bryce Pinkham
“Have you noticed how easily the very young die? They make the best martyrs for any cause, the best soldiers, the best suicides. It's because they're held here so lightly: they haven't yet accumulated loves and responsibilities and commitments and all the things that tie us securely to this world. They can let go of it as easily and simply as lifting a finger. But as you get older, you begin to find things that are worth holding onto, forever.” WorldYoungDiesCausesResponsibilityForeverHavensThis WorldLetting GoCommitmentSuicideFingersSoldierTiesMartyrLiftingLove And Responsibility Author:Tana French
“If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.” IfsWritingDoeArtistEnemyTalentWallOvercomingDifficultySuicideSoldierFallenContemplatingReflectingGalleryFlingTrenchesMinersYawningCraters Author:Honore de Balzac
“In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose of life, we would feel compelled to commit suicide. If, however, we accept that life has no purpose we would be inclined to soldier on in a cussed, stoical manner like Sisyphus, endlessly pushing his rock up a hill only to see it roll down again.” PeopleIfsLifeFeelsImportantWould BeDeathPurposeFictionAcceptingRocksClaimsSuicideSoldierMythCommitHillsInsanityLife And DeathPushingPurpose Of LifeCompelledNon FictionSisyphusMyth Of Sisyphus Author:Philip French
“I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.” ConcernedSuicideRateSoldierPtsdIncidents Author:Barbara Lee
“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.” PeopleWorldWarOrderEnemySuicideStartingSoldierCommitBlockWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiTroopsArrivalsTorchesPowderCitadels Author:Oriana Fallaci