Suicide Quote by Eric Weiner

“Émile Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, said that when societies hit a civilisational break the suicide rate soars.”

— Edward Luce

“The accountants who spent ten hours a day copying out numbers were, to my mind, victims sacrificed on the altar of a divinity wholly…

— Amélie Nothomb

“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

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

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

— Robert E. Neale

“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

“In certain quarters the quest for scapegoats had begun. It was important to know whose fault all this was. It was important to know…

— Salman Rushdie

“Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the great documenter of the slave-labour-camp horrors of the latter, once wrote that the “pitiful ideology” holding that “human beings are created…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“Among pernicious myths is the one where people always get very upbeat and generous and other-directed right before they eliminate their own map for…

— David Foster Wallace

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

“Fritz’s theory was that modern society has gravely disrupted the social bonds that have always characterized the human experience, and that disasters thrust people…

— Sebastian Junger

“Their history is largely a record of crime, war, disease, and terror, with just sufficient happiness interposed to give them, while it lasts, an…

— C.S. Lewis