“One of the century’s most famous intellectual pronouncements comes at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus: “There is but one truly… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“One time, she waddled out and showed Peg her bandages from her last suicide attempt, which invokes sympathy in some, but usually… — David James Keaton Copy Share Image
Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter. — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
“This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing. I think young people,… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“I accompanied him to the first aid clinic to look at the would-be suicide. He was unconscious. Nurses were already on the… — Lewis E. Lawes Copy Share Image
My story goes like this. My parent would fight every second of the day. I would lock myself in my room and… — Me Copy Share Image
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“Anyone can be crazy,” she answered. “That’s usually just because there’s something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
“Once one survives the trough that comes with the understanding that people are going to go on being stupid and cruel to… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
Allah has tailor made the test for each and every one of us and none of us will be given something which… — Bilal Philips Copy Share Image
Give a man a suicide bomb, he blows up once. Teach a man to suicide bomb, he also blows up once. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Traditional Muslims stand at the foot of the ladder, living in guilt for not really practicing Islam. At the top are fundamentalists,… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image