„But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.“

— Anne Sexton

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„But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.Twice I have so simply declared myself,have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,have taken on his craft, his magic.“
— Anne Sexton
„It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.''Why not?''It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.“
— George Orwell
„A nation never falls but by suicide.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„No' is a magical word," he told her. "Here's how it goes. You say, 'Simon, I have an insane, suicidal plan. Would you like to help me carry it out?' And I say, "Why, no.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide.I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.“
— Charles Bukowski
„Only optimists commit suicide, the optimists who can no longer be... optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why should they have any to die?“
— Emil M. Cioran
„There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.“
— Stephen King