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“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you’re laughing again.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“Thus with a kiss I die.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“I dreamed vaguely of killing myself to wipe out at least one of these superfluous lives. But even my death would have been In the way. In the way, my corpse, my blood on these stones, between these plants, at the back of this smiling garden.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.” G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
“It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.” Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
“By committing suicide, Al had taken away the scholar’s greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.” Stephen King, 11/22/63
“Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.” William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
“It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.” William Shakespeare, Othello
“To be, or not to be, that is the Question” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Pity we haven't got a bit of rope.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.” William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
“They’re a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It’s said that without whisky to soak and soften the world, they’d kill themselves.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don’t throw yourself down the stairs, that’s a choice. Every time you don’t crash your car, you reenlist.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

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