„Consider this point carefully: nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.“

— Cesare Pavese

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„This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.“
— Jodi Picoult
„A nation never falls but by suicide.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.“
— Peter F. Drucker
„He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.“
— Osamu Dazai
„By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?“
— Emil M. Cioran
„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
„Not everything Jace did was insane and suicidal, she reminded herself. It just seemed that way.-Clary, pg.46“
— Cassandra Clare
„There is only one way to learn … It's through action.“
— Paulo Coelho