Famous quotes containing the words commit suicide, commit and/or suicide:
“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.”
—Cesare Pavese (19081950)
“I wonder if its ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? Dya suppose its ethical even if you prove that he didnt commit a crime? Im not much on rear window ethics.”
—John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)
“What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?”
—Herman Melville (18191891)