prosuicide quotes

"suicide is an important medical treatment for depression"
-http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Suicide

“it is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.”
-Sophocles, in his play Oedipus at Colonus

“life presents itself by no means as a gift for enjoyment, but as a task, a drudgery to be performed; and in accordance with this we see, in great and small, universal need, ceaseless cares, constant pressure, endless strife, compulsory activity, with extreme exertion of all the powers of body and mind [...] all push and drive [...] the tumult is indescribable. but the ultimate aim of it all, what is it? to sustain ephemeral and tormented individuals through a short span of time in the most fortunate case with endurable want and comparable freedom from pain, which however, is at once attended with ennui [...] in this evident disproportion between the trouble and the reward, the will to live appears to us from this point of view, if taken objectively, as a fool, or subjectively, as a delusion, seized by which everything living works with the utmost exertion of its strength for some thing that is of no value”
-Arthur Schopenhauer, „the world as will and representation“

"weakness. it consists in seeing the truth of the situation and yet clinging to life, knowing in advance that nothing can come of it. people of this kind know that death is better than life, but not having the strength to act rationally - to end the deception quickly and kill themselves - they seem to be waiting for something. this is the escape of weakness, for if i know what is best and it is within my power, why not yield to what is best?"
-Leo Tolstoy, "a confession"

"why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying to prolong life instead of finding pleasant ways to end it? there must be a hell of a lot of people in the world like me - who want to die but haven't got the guts"
-Gloria, a character in "they shoot horses, don't they?", by Horace McCoy

“it has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense. as long as i can remember, every incident and every impulse of my existence has served only to perpetrate one episode after another of conspicuous nonsense, each completely outrageous in its nonsensicality”
-Thomas Ligotti, "teatro grottesco", p.53

“beef, pork, sometimes goat – they go into us and come out of us. this is part of the regimen of nonsense that nature forced upon us. but it is not all the nonsense we must endure as we go to and fro on the earth and walk up and down upon it. the nature nonsense, the God nonsense. how much more nonsense can we take in our lives? [...] the pain nonsense, the nightmare nonsense, the sweat and slave nonsense, and many other shapes and sizes of insufferable nonsense [...] brought to us on a plate, and we must eat it up or...”
-Thomas Ligotti, "the conspiracy against the human race", p.166

"life is sweet perhaps to some, but i prefer what is sweeter than life, and that is death. so good-by"

-a 19 years old, prior to poisoning herself, as mentioned in "suicide and insanity" by S. A. K. Strahan, p. 131

“verily, I say unto you, none of those who fear death will be saved; for the kingdom belongs to those who put themselves to death.”
-Jesus, "the apocryphon of James" it’s the 2nd text within the Nag Hammâdi scriptures

dramatic pause

"noone ever lacks a good reason for suicide"
-Cesare Pavese, "the business of living"

"1. everyone has problems

2. a rational person should should solve their problems in the most efficient way

3. suicide is the most efficient way of solving all one's problems

4. from 1-3, a rational person should commit suicide

[...] all else equal, if there are two solutions to a problem and one is better than the other for whatever reason, then not choosing the better option is tantamount to indifference to the resolution to the problem i.e. the problem never existed in the first place. the only other case for someone knowingly choosing an inferior option and yet still believing in the problem is that the person is irrational."

-zralytylen, "rational self destruction", http://suicidetreatise.blogspot.de/2012/02/rational-self-destruction.html

“i have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. this ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. what can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? to detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? to caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?”
-Voltaire, "candide"

"one said of suicide, “as long as one has brains one should not blow them out.” and another answered, “but when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.”"

-F.H. Bradley, "aphorisms"

"unless we die in a timely fashion, there comes a moment after which we are unable to kill ourselves. if we do not want to die a lingering death after a protracted period of pathetic disability, we must kill ourselves while we can, perhaps earlier than we might feel ready to do so"
-Thomas Szasz, "suicide prohibition", p.3

"although the air we breathe is heavily polluted with antisuicide propaganda, it cannot extinguish the knowledge that, at bottom, suicide is a solution"
-Thomas Szasz, "suicide prohibition", p.X