199 quotes found
“Suicide is an act of man and not of the animal.”
“O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike!”
“It will generally be found that as soon the terrors of live reach the point where they outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to his life.”
“One, who suicides, is itself a killer and itself a victim. To trigger that has its decision, and own willingness, no one else.”
“The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.”
“Nothing scares me more than a failed attempt. The last thing I want is to end up in a wheelchair, eating pulverized food and being watched around the clock by some sassy nurse who has a not-so-secr...”
“The basic Irrational Act which is renewed every moment of life, is not to commit suicide.”
“But perhaps the most celebrated of these auto-incendiaries is Kalanos. You will remember, no doubt, that Kalanos (the Greek version of the Sanskrit Kalyna) was an Indian asceticthough not a Buddhis...”
“People think that those who commit suicide are against lifethey are not. They are too lusty for life, they have great lust for life; and because life is not fulfilling their lust, in anger, in desp...”
“He killed himself for wanting to live, for wanting to find someone that would love him, someone that would actually love him enough to want to be with him in his life, he did found rare people like...”
“I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me.”
“Suicide is not criminal. However, a failed attempt at it is. I wonder how someone will so much fail in life to want to take his own life and still fail at it.”
“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed it as soon as he entered the still darkened house where he had hurried ...”
“On suicide:Those are vanities, child. They cause immeasurable suffering in this life and all future lives. Who knows, perhaps you have been given this harsh portion because of misdeeds in some past...”
“Suicide is the night train, speeding your way to darkness.”
“If someone is determined to kill himself, nothing will stop him.”
“Seriously... a sermon is not going to achieve anything. We all know perfectly well that one must not commit suicide. And yet there are times when the world we live in becomes so tough on us that we...”
“Suicide is just stoping you and everyone around you from getting better.”
“I was unable to throw myself in the ocean, she writes, the handwriting more erratic as the painkillers seep into every cell, shutting out lights in empty rooms.”
“why does Anna Karenina kill herself? the answer seems clear enough: for years people in her world have turned away from her; she is suffering at the separation from her son, Seryozha; even if Vrons...”
