“People struggle to live, not to commit suicide”

— Paulo Coelho

Veronika Decides to Die

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "People struggle to live, not to commit suicide" by Paulo Coelho?

Paulo Coelho photo

Paulo Coelho844

Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

Related quotes

“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”

Thomas Bernhard book Correction

Source: Correction

“I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide”

Bertie Ahern (1951) Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland

commenting on people "talking the economy down", just before the crash. Speech at Irish Congress of Trade Unions conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfjGSfuSQpA 2007-07-3.

“"The Day I Tried to Live" has nothing to do with suicide. It's much more meant to be like everyman's story. In spite of how most people present themselves, they probably struggle to feel comfortable or normal around other people, to feel as if they fit in. Everybody wants to and tries to. That's what that song is about. And "Like Suicide" is just a title. It's not about suicide at all.”

Chris Cornell (1964–2017) American singer-songwriter, musician

Interview with Request Magazine, October 1994 http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/articles/request_10-94.shtml, <br class="br">On depression and suicide

“To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.”

Anaïs Nin book Incest: From a Journal of Love

Source: Incest: From a Journal of Love

“People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love, power, fame, revenge. Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973), p. 30

“Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.”

Robert Crumb (1943) American cartoonist

"Simon Hattenston talks to Robert Crumb" http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/mar/07/robertcrumb.comics, The Guardian, 7 March 2005.

“The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.”

Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005) Feminist writer

“How about Prozac? … The U. S. number one cause of [unnatural] death is suicide now because they give people suicide mass murder pills. … I want to get people off pills that the insert says will make you commit suicide and kill people! I want to blame the real culprit—suicide pills! Mass murder pills!”

Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker

Alex Jones on Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN, 7 January 2013.
2013

“A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

"The Poets' Corner III," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (May 30, 1887)

“Science … commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist

"The Darwin Memorial" (1885) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE2/DarM.html <br class="br">1880s

Related topics