Parenting Quote by Edward Luce

“In the nineteenth century, one hundred years before a country called Qatar existed, Emile Durkheim, the French sociologist, wrote of “anomic suicide.” It’s what…

— Eric Weiner

“I was suicidal for two solid centuries once. That was during the early part of what they now call the Dark Ages, in medieval…

— Gene Doucette

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

— Jean Baudrillard

“Individual suicide was wasteful, but mass suicide that sent a message of defiance, and that encouraged future generations to fight oppression to the death,…

— Jeff Guinn

“Suicide has been included in Swedish population statistics (starting in church records) since the 1600s, and this may contribute to the country’s prominent reputation…

— Christina Johansson Robinowitz

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

— Robert E. Neale

“A 1970 report found that problems on the job and in one’s finances entered into the picture in at least one-half of the Swedish…

— Christina Johansson Robinowitz

“Mother: “I’m amazed that more people don’t commit suicide. They just keep on living. It’s so hard and they just keep doing it.” Useful”

— Eula Biss

Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itself as is, condemns the suicide.”

— Robert E. Neale

“Suicide and depression rates, to take one revealing statistic, have shot up in countries with the fastest-growing economies. So has the number of young…

— Pankaj Mishra

A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.

— Haim Harari