The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
EMILE CIORAN, The New Gods
All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.
HERMANN HESSE, Steppenwolf
The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is press coverage.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK, Survivor
You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Sorrows of Young Werther
