#suicide

I may hire a photographer to document my hanging. Maybe have him get some close-ups of my facial expressions as the rope snaps my neck. My only concern is whether I will be self-aware and over dramatize the event, with the knowledge that I’m being watched and the moment recorded for posterity. Who will I be at the moment of my death, a man struggling to come to terms with the end of his life, and weighing the wisdom of suicide, or an actor hamming it up for the camera? I’d better spend a few hours in front of the mirror perfecting a few iconic faces. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#iconic #suicide #death

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. ↗

— Albert Camus

#going-on #suicide #survival #courage

Living is really hard, but death is forever. We’re all going to die eventually, so what’s your rush' Even if you think committing suicide will make you seem tragic and romantic and cool, you’ll never know what happened anyway. Don’t you want to know how your life was supposed to turn out. Wouldn’t you like to see what you’re made of? ↗

— Susan M. Brackney

#inspirational #death

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. ↗

— John Adams

#bloody #commit #democracy #did #either

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide. ↗

— Josef Albers

#i #suggest #suicide #way #you

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite. ↗

— Brent Spiner

#career #just #opposite #people #really

There aren't many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory - it'd be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it's strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places. ↗

— Sean Booth

#asia #basically #different #different places #europe

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#easier #fame #gracefully #growing #growing old

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#alive #because #committed #companionship #had

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#brute #destroyed #effectually #i #indolence