Quotes: suicide
Quotes 1 till 15 of 61.
-
Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
-
A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
-
A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
-
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!
-
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
-
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
-
Baby this town rips the bones from your back It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap We gotta get out while we're young 'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.
Source: Born to Run (1974) -
Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
-
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
-
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
-
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
-
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
-
History is not a suicide note, it is a record of our survival.
-
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
