Antagonist Quote by Ernest Bramah

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The darkest night in someone's life may be the brightest day in another person's life. Life rests on perceptions and conceptions or missed perceptions…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in…

— Julian Barnes

“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

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

— Nic Pizzolatto

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

— Edmund Burke

To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the things we…

— Tony Clark

“This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience some of…

— Marcel Proust

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless…

— Novalis

“Have not many of us, in the weary way of life, felt, in some hours, how far easier it were to die than to…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg