« All Suicide Quotes · Emile M. Cioran's Page
Suicide Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
- The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
- I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right…
- The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?
- By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
- A book is a suicide postponed.
- Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to…
- When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like.…
More Suicide Quotes
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- There is something great and terrible about suicide. — Honore de Balzac
- Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical… — Honore de Balzac
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams
- I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit. — Travis Barker
- Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide. — Charles Barkley
- My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact. — Roseanne Barr
- Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams
- She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. — Saul Bellow
- Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous. — Robert Benchley