Despair Quote by Erica Jong

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer…

— Rollo May

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“It was indeed terrible. And to rid myself of the terror I wished to kill myself. I experienced terror at what awaited me --…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Dying is easy. Anyone can throw themselves onto the pyre and rest a happy martyr. Enduring the suffering that comes with sacrifice is the…

— Jay Kristoff

Was it harder to die, or harder to be the one who survived?

— Ruta Sepetys

Deaths got to be easy because life is hard

— Stephen Woodhouse

To die for someone is easy, more challenging is to have the courage to live for someone.

— Anonymous

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

— Anais Nin

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

— Bela Lugosi

For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

— Sarah Addison Allen

“A martyr is a man who cares so much for something outside him, that he forgets his own personal life. A suicide is a…

— G.K. Chesterton

The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in…

— David Ebershoff