
“There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.”
Argument on the murder of Captain White (1830)
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 276
“There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.”
Argument on the murder of Captain White (1830)
Though covered by Manson, this is actually a lyric to "Suicide Is Painless" written by Mike Altman for the movie M*A*S*H (1970); the music (written by Johnny Mandel) later provided the theme music for the M*A*S*H TV series.
Misattributed
BBC Monitoring (7 April 2003) "Iraqi information minister denies presence of US forces in Baghdad" (as US forces reported entering the center of Baghdad)
“Suicide is a permanent question.”
Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”
1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
Source: The Presence of the Kingdom (1948), p. 28
“A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.”
“Envy is ignorance,
Imitation is Suicide.”
Variant: Imitation is suicide.
Source: Self-Reliance