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Quotes About Suicide

Les romantiques furent les derniers spécialistes du suicide. Depuis, on le bâcle... Pour en améliorer la qualité, nous avons grand besoin d'un nouveau mal du siècle.
~ Emil Cioran
Živim samo zato što je u mojoj mo?i da umrem kad mi se prohte: bez ideje o samoubistvu, odavno bih se ubio.
~ Emil Cioran
Le romantisme anglais fut un mélange heureux de laudanum, d'exil et de phtisie; le romantisme allemand, d'alcool, de province et de suicide.
~ Emil Cioran
Elän ainoastaan siksi, että minun vallassani on kuolla silloin kun se minusta hyvältä tuntuu: ilman itsemurha- ajatusta olisin tappanut itseni aikoja sitten.
~ Emil Cioran
Gândul la Dumnezeu este un obstacol sinuciderii, dar nu morÈ›ii . El nu imblanzeste deloc întunericul de care se va fi speriat Dumnezeu pe vremea când îÈ™i caut? pulsul prin teroarea nimicului...
~ Emil Cioran
And this nothing, this everything, cannot give life a meaning, but it nonetheless makes life persevere in what it is: a state of non-suicide.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Secondo me l'atto di scrivere è proprio questo, dico sul serio: un atto di immensa solitudine. Lo scrittore non ha senso se non in queste condizioni. Quello che fai dopo è prostituzione. Ma non appena accetti di esistere, devi accettare la prostituzione. Per me chiunque non si suicidi è in qualche modo uno che si prostituisce.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Apart from a few examples of exhaustive melancholy, and a few unequalled suicides, men are merely puppets stuffed with red globules in order to beget history and its grimaces.
~ Emil M. Cioran
No autocrat wields a power comparable to that enjoyed by a poor devil planning to kill himself.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Un livre est un suicide différé.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Se, no momento de nosso nascimento, fôssemos tão conscientes como o somos ao sair da adolescência, é mais do que provável que aos cinco anos o suicídio fosse um fenômeno habitual ou mesmo uma questão de honorabilidade. Mas despertamos tarde demais: temos contra nós os anos fecundados unicamente pela presença dos instintos, que devem ficar estupefatos com as conclusões a que conduzem nossas meditações e decepções.
~ Emil M. Cioran
It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
~ Emil M. Cioran
It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Ne se suicident que les optimistes qui ne peuvent plus l'être. Les autres, n'ayant aucune raison de vivre, pourquoi en auraient-ils de mourir ?
~ Emil M. Cioran
Belirli bir gruptaki intihar vakalar?n?n kayda deÄŸer bir ÅŸekilde artmas?, bu grup içindeki toplumsal dayan??man?n zay?flad???n? ve üyelerin, varoluÅŸsal krizlere kar?? grup taraf?ndan art?k yeterince korunamad???n? gösterir.
~ Émile Durkheim
Quant aux événements privés qui passent généralement pour être les causes prochaines du suicide, ils n'ont d'autre action que celle que leur prêtent les dispositions morales de la victime, écho de l'état moral de la société.
~ Émile Durkheim
Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;
~ Émile Durkheim
Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.
~ Émile Durkheim
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?
~ Emilie Autumn
What's the big fucking deal? Lots of amazing people have committed suicide, and they turned out alright.
~ Emilie Autumn
The Bohemian who tires of life, who gives up by retirement into insamity or suicide, is not necessarily one who had failed in what he wants to express.
~ Emily Hahn
And I tell you something else, don't none of you forget it: I know a lot of people done took their own lives and they're walking up and down the streets today and some of them is preaching the gospel and some is sitting in the seats of the mighty. Now, you remember that. If the world wasn't so full of dead folks maybe those of us that's trying to live wouldn't have to suffer so bad.
~ baldwin james xi
Suicide, moreover, was at that time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
~ balzac honore de vi
It is extremely rare for young men, when driven to suicide, to attempt it a second time if the first fails. When it doesn't cure life, it cures all desire for voluntary death.
~ balzac honore de xvii