5228 | A suicide embraces death to run away from hardships, rather than because it is a fine deed [Aristotle] |
1831 | Wise men should partake of life even if they go blind [Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius] |
14520 | It is small-minded to find many good reasons for suicide [Epicurus] |
20858 | Suicide is reasonable, for one's country or friends, or because of very bad health [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius] |
3046 | Stoics say a wise man will commit suicide if he has a good enough reason [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius] |
13298 | Suicide may be appropriate even when it is not urgent, if there are few reasons against it [Seneca] |
13319 | If we control our own death, no one has power over us [Seneca] |
13320 | Sometimes we have a duty not to commit suicide, for those we love [Seneca] |
4854 | It is impossible that the necessity of a person's nature should produce a desire for non-existence [Spinoza] |
4677 | If suicide is wrong because only God disposes of our lives, it must also be wrong to save lives [Hume] |
19739 | The maxim for suicide is committed to the value of life, and is thus contradictory [Kant] |
6188 | A permanent natural order could not universalise a rule permitting suicide [Kant] |
21471 | If suicide was quick and easy, most people would have done it by now [Schopenhauer] |
18329 | Sometimes it is an error to have been born - but we can rectify it [Nietzsche] |
4678 | Absolute prohibitions are the essence of ethics, and suicide is the most obvious example [Wittgenstein] |
23860 | Even if a drowning man is doomed, he should keep swimming to the last [Weil] |
19611 | No one has ever found a good argument against suicide [Cioran] |
19610 | Religions see suicide as insubordination [Cioran] |
19609 | If you have not contemplated suicide, you are a miserable worm [Cioran] |
23067 | Suicide is pointless, because it always comes too late [Cioran] |
9248 | It is essential to die unreconciled and not of one's own free will [Camus] |
7984 | Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored [Baudrillard] |
4679 | One test for a worthwhile life is to assess the amount of life for which you would rather be unconscious [Glover] |
7824 | If suicide is lawful, but assisting suicide is unlawful, powerless people are denied their rights [Grayling] |