Commit Suicide

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 (1908–1950)

“Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.”
—Piers Paul Read (b. 1941)

“Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)