#suicide

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#anyone #blood #bombing #desperate #even

Some of the most challenging work a suicide survivor can do is to pray. To pray fully, survivors must bring all of themselves to the prayer: their anger, disappointment, fears, insecurities, and why's. I bring all of me into an encounter with God, aware that nothing in the human experience, or the human response to the ambushes of life, is alien to God. ↗

— Harold Ivan Smith

#grieving #prayer #suicide #anger

There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#life #life-and-living #living #living-life #living-life-to-the-fullest

Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of bereavement? What do we do with the memory - or in the memory - of the beloved? Some commemorate love with statuary, but behavior, too, is a memorial, as is a well-lived life. In death, there is always the promise of hope. The key is opening, rather than numbing, ourselves to pain. Above all, we must show our children how to celebrate existence in all its beauty, and how to get up after life has knocked us down, time and again. Half-dead, we stand. And together, we salute love. Because in the end, that's all that matters. How hard we loved, and how hard we tried. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#death #depression #grief-inspirational #loss #love

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#problem #solution #suicide #temporary

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#book #came #city #detroit #evanescent

How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide! ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#asking #committed #dare #did #how

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. ↗

— James Buchan

#bloody #bombers #both #brutal #chance

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. ↗

— James Buchan

#bombings #during #east #europe #exclusive

I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it. ↗

— Lesley Boone

#commit #head #i #i tried #oven