“Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Rick Riordan 1402
American writer 1964Related quotes
“People struggle to live, not to commit suicide”
Veronika Decides to Die
Odysseus to Hades, Book XI, line 145
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Context: Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft:
I've always fought to purify wild flame to light,
and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame.
“A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.”
"The Poets' Corner III," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (May 30, 1887)
“Science … commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
"The Darwin Memorial" (1885) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE2/DarM.html
1880s
29 September, 2009, in a meeting in Dos Hermanas, Seville, referring to the tax increase announced by the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
As Opposition Leader, 2009
Source: Diario ADN http://www.elpais.com/audios/espana/lapsus/Rajoy/ETA/gran/nacion/csrcsrpor/20070611csrcsrnac_6/Aes/
BBC Monitoring (7 April 2003) "Iraqi information minister denies presence of US forces in Baghdad" (as US forces reported entering the center of Baghdad)
“It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.”