Cease Quote by Cyril Connolly

“When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide. For what better grounds for suicide can there…

— Cyril Connolly

Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a…

— Emile Durkheim

The tragedy of suicide is not death. It is what dies within us whilst we live.

— Joanne Reay

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

— Robert Breault

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything…

— Anonymous

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

— Emile M. Cioran

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to…

— Antonin Artaud

If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage…

— David Hume

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

— Anonymous

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

— Albert Einstein

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

— Anonymous

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field…

— Henry David Thoreau