„I thought that the only action a man could perform without shame was to take his life; that he had no right to diminish himself in the succession of days and the inertic of misery. No elect, I kept telling myself, but those who committed suicide.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„I am inclined to follow the course suggested by a friend of mine who says that he has always followed the rule never to murder a man who is committing suicide, and clearly this misdirected gentleman is committing suicide slowly but sureley.“
— Woodrow Wilson
„I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.“
— Osamu Dazai
„The man who, through his own efforts, is able to perform all the actions necessary for his comfort and development in life, conquers himself, and in doing so multiplies his abilities and perfects himself as an individual.We must make of the future generation, powerful men, and by that we mean men who are independent and free.“
— Maria Montessori
„Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche