Storytelling Quote by David Foster Wallace

The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Suicide is an attack on society--an attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair.”

— Robert E. Neale

“It seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with illness or senility; a heroic…

— Julian Barnes

“It had seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with terminal illness or senility;…

— Julian Barnes

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When the door to suicide opens it becomes a viable option that you never considered before, but, once ajar, it initiates an invasion strategy.…

— B.G. Bowers

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as…

— Denise Mina

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

— Honore de Balzac

Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded…

— Annie Besant

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined…

— Georges Bernanos

All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his…

— Anonymous