Books Quote by Julian Barnes

“It had seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with terminal illness or senility;…

— Julian Barnes

“The rational arguments against suicide are compelling. It causes intense suffering for loved ones that few would intend in their right mind. It is…

— Michael Gerson

“Suicide is nothing, but an act of depriving the soul from it's very right to liberation.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

“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

“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

“Committing suicide essentially said to friends and loved ones and the world at large that you were the only thing that mattered, that your…

— Christine Warren

Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his…

— Anonymous

“For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage…

— David Hume

“But when a person commits suicide, he does not do violence only to himself; he inflicts death upon those whom he least considered would…

— F. Sionil José

“SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose; when, where and how to die. ― John Zea”

— John Zea