Honore de Balzac Quotes

The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)

...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide.

Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.

I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.

I don't persuade to suicide.

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

Suicide is the only way out.

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.

It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it.

I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows.

If somebody wants to shoot up and die in front of you, more power to them. The herd has a way of thinning itself out.

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

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.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.