Suicide is an act of man and not of the animal.

“Suicide is nothing, but an act of depriving the soul from it's very right to liberation.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

— Cesare Pavese

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things…

— William Hazlitt

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him…

— Mark Twain

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

— Veronica Roth

From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for…

— Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom…

— Erich Fromm

Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.

— William C. Brown

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

— James Tiptree Jr

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

— Eric Hoffer

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

— Jean Kerr

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the…

— John Muir

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is…

— Charlie Chaplin

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi