#suicide

All the whispering, glaring, pointing and judging makes them no better than whoever or whatever it is they're gossiping about. ↗

— Tiffany King

#gossip #inspirational #judging #life #me

He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless excluded from his work, it's because he never quite felt that he deserved to receive it. He was a lifelong prisoner on the island of himself. What looked like gentle contours from a distance were in fact sheer cliffs. Sometimes only a little of him was crazy, sometimes nearly all of him, but, as an adult, he was never entirely not crazy. What he'd seen of his id while trying to escape his island prison by way of drugs and alcohol, only to find himself even more imprisoned by addiction, seems never to have ceased to be corrosive of his belief in his lovability. Even after he got clean, even decades after his late-adolescent suicide attempt, even after his slow and heroic construction of a life for himself, he felt undeserving. And this feeling was intertwined, ultimately to the point of indistinguishability, with the thought of suicide, which was the one sure way out of his imprisonment; surer than addiction, surer than fiction, and surer, finally, than love. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#david-foster-wallace #desperation #love #mental-illness #self-confidence

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bad #because #commit #dying #i

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#actions speak #contemplation #evidence #forget #louder

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. ↗

— Max Lerner

#government #means #suicide #technology #world

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window. ↗

— Bill Maher

#gay #gay marriage #goes #marriage #medical

When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible. ↗

— Ricky Martin

#being #bullied #committing #force #gay

Suicide is an attack on society--an attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair. ↗

— Robert E. Neale

#society #suicide #art

I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#bunch #committing #everybody #i #i think

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#must #next #suicide #think #thinks