Tariq Ali Author, Political Activist “Terror breeds terror. I am completely opposed to both state terror and those who respond in a similar way. There is no justification for any group that associates itself with the Left to kill innocents and encourage suicide bombings.” Suicide Terror Justification ♥ 3
Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet “Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.” Doe Suicide Sublime ♥ 3
SD Samuel Daniel Poet “This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends.” World Suicide Vain ♥ 3
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet “A nation never falls but by suicide.” Fall Suicide ♥ 3
Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist “It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.” Home Suicide Lingering ♥ 3
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet “I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.” Character Loss Suicide ♥ 3
Vincent Van Gogh Painter “It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.” Gay Suicide ♥ 3
SA Scott Adams Cartoonist “I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.” Thinking Death Suicide ♥ 3
