Family Quote by jeffrey eugenides

It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“think suicides are the saddest deaths of all. It means someone has decided that life has no part for them to play any more.”

— Stephen Booth

“Individual suicide was wasteful, but mass suicide that sent a message of defiance, and that encouraged future generations to fight oppression to the death,…

— Jeff Guinn

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

— Robert E. Neale

“Bullets only kill the body, not the being. The being lives, so long as the cause lives.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Suicide is a hasty unresolved death that slowly kills those close-by day by day.”

— Anthony Liccione

“It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoot themselves in...the head. And the truth is…

— David Foster Wallace

“And I fired four more times at a lifeless body and the bullets sank in without leaving a mark. And it was like giving…

— Albert Camus

“A Man's suicide is the ultimate violence he can fling against the granite circumstance he could not vanquish. Its a lonely and desperate act…

— F. Sionil José

“He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled. Either somebody had really had it in for him or four…

— Richard S. Prather

“Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting…

— David Foster Wallace