Life Quote by Kierkegaard, Soren

Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Suicide is, after all, the result of a choice. However impulsive the action and confused the motives, at the moment when a man finally…

— Al Álvarez

“SUICIDE can be considered an act of MURDER committed on ONESELF”

— Kamil Ali

“It was the same with how people said committed suicide. As if suicide were a felony and not the last desperate act of someone…

— Ethel Rohan

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

— Roberto Bolano

“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

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

— Cesare Pavese

“A Man's suicide is the ultimate violence he can fling against the granite circumstance he could not vanquish. Its a lonely and desperate act…

— F. Sionil José

“Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody…

— Sally Brampton

“Suicide is a permanent answer to a temporary problem." They say, it's not an "answer" in any way. Taking your own life is SE…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Through the years the thought of suicide had occurred to him, not as an intention, but as one of the many possibilities among the…

— Ayn Rand

“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