„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

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„People struggle to live, not to commit suicide“
— Paulo Coelho
„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
„It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„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
„The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.“
— Cesare Pavese
„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