Emile M. Cioran Suicide Quotations

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

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act.” And they do calm down.

A book is a suicide postponed.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?