Self Immolation Quotes

“Self-immolation as a way to protest against the injustices or as a way to fight for freedom cannot be accepted! All the fights must be done in the dimension of existence! Your body is your road to everywhere; if you destroy it, you lose all the roads! Stay firm and fight alive; no cause is more valuable than a man’s life! Keep your body out of the fire! Don’t ever praise the self-immolations; condemn them! Suicide is a defeat! Power is to fight, to fight peacefully, and not to die in agony!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Did you know that our region has the world’s highest rate of female self-immolation? There. We hold one international record. Despite our long tradition of having female rulers and governors, we’ve become a nation of burned women.”
― Ava Homa, Daughters of Smoke and Fire

“To burn oneself by fire is to prove that what one is saying is of the utmost importance.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire

“looked at the surface of the sea once more. The horde covered him like shining liquid metal all the way to the horizon. Kimo was faced with the horrible truth: there was no chance of escape He didn't want to die like Thalia and Halverson and made a painful decision.
He emptied the last drops of gasoline onto the deck, forcing the swarm back again, grabbed a lighter from his pocket, and dropped to one knee. He braced himself, snapped his finger on the flint, and lit it on the fuel-soaked deck.
A few sparks flashed, and the vapors ignited. A sudden blaze leaped forward from the aft end of the catamaran. The flames leaped through the ever-approaching swarm, all the way to the cabin, and then thundered back toward Kimo, engulfing him and setting him ablaze.
The pain was too intense to bear even for the few seconds he had left. Engulfed in flames and unable to scream, his lungs destroyed by the fire, Kimo A'kona staggered backward and fell into the waiting sea.”
― Clive Cussler, The Storm

“That's the special horror of the Yeerks. They don't just take over your mind and eliminate you. You continue to be aware. You continue to be conscious. You sit there in your own head watching the Yeerk open your memory, watching the Yeerk fool your friends and family, watching the Yeerk turn the people you love into the same kind of slave you've become. You try to move your hand, but you can't. You try to make your mouth speak, but you can't. You don't even control what your eyes look at. That's what it's like.”
― K.A. Applegate, The Android

“I know what you want but I'm not going to give it to you, Drummond. I hope you live a long and painful life. In a prison. In a bed. In a place that stinks of shit and piss. Breathing through a tube. Eating through a tube. And I hope that every day, you want to die but can't do a fucking thing about it”
― Michael Connelly

“From the center of each pillar, a figure pulled away as if trying to escape mud. They were still covered in rock, but it was a thinner layer, enough to keep them trapped but not to hide their shape. The rock only retreated fully from their faces, letting them open their eyes, open their mouths. They did not scream, even though the horror in their eyes made it clear it was all they wanted in the whole world.
Each of these pillars was a person.
I saw the way their eyes rolled in mad terror — the panic and despair as they were allowed to see freedom, if just for a moment — while they sang for the Old Man's pleasure. The worst thing was how glorious they sounded: they were a perfect sunrise, a walk through a well-tended garden in spring, the laughter of someone you love. I could have listened to them for hours if I didn't understand the atrocity that had been committed to capture that sound.”
― Jenn Lyons, The Ruin of Kings