Life Quote by Honore de Balzac

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

— Robert E. Neale

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

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

“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

“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

“There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide.”

— Denis Johnson

Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and…

— David Cannadine

“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

“For a long while she lived in the hope that my evident wretchedness would drive me to the commission of suicide; but suicide was…

— George Eliot

“Suicides, in his experience, were perfectly capable of feigning an interest in a future they had no intention of inhabiting.”

— Robert Galbraith

“Also worthy of mention is a clique among the suicidal for whom the meaning of their act is a darker thing. Frustrated as perpetrators…

— Thomas Ligotti