Home » Quote » Ralph Waldo Emerson » „A nation never falls but by suicide.“ „A nation never falls but by suicide.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson Tags:Suicide Related quotes „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 „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 „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 „But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.“ — Anne Sexton „Suicide is painless.“ — Marilyn Manson „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 „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