Suicide Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image ““Pleasure of tragedy is vicarious suicide”” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Suicide Tragedy
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Suicide is the utmost sincere and candid apology to the ones you hurt most” — Christopher J Marshall Copy Share Image
The tragedy of suicide is not death. It is what dies within us whilst we live. — Joanne Reay Copy Share Image
“Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph.” — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
“One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If I died If I died tonight would you notice? Would you even care? If I died tonight would you find it humorous? Would… — Me Copy Share Image
My bodies cold lips are blue why did I do this because of you? I feel the earth below me like a pillow under… — Nik Is Dead Copy Share Image
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I lay on my floor crying again¦ shaking. Searching for inner strength and coming up empty. My eyes burned and my mouth was dry… — Nathan Daniels Copy Share Image
“Why do people kill themselves? I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason to keep going. When nothing in… — Mary Beth Miller Copy Share Image
“No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“And thus they form a perfect group; he walks back two or three paces, selects his point of sight, and begins to sketch a… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image