"At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death."

Pavese, Cesare on Suicide
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"When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."

Dahlberg, Edward on Travel and Tourism
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"AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder."

Sontag, Susan on AIDS
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"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."

Cioran, E. M. on Suicide
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