#suicide

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#bombs #brink #class #guys #instead

I have a suicide impulse. ↗

— Hal Holbrook

#impulse #suicide

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#desires #destroy #destruction #ends #entrusts

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

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#sadness #suicide #funny

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

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. ↗

— Travis Barker

#called #detroit #i #i quit #join

Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#goes #just #league #now #professional

To get through the night, I sometimes imagined the sky filled with a canopy of stars. I imagined that each star contained the soul of a girl or boy who had died too young, and the light the stars gave off was their brightness. ↗

— Jill Bialosky

#death #died-too-young #stars #suicide #death

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#committed #ever #good #good book #many