Friedrich Nietzsche Suicide Quotations

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.