“He killed himself for wanting to live.”

“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.”

“July 24, 6:03 A. M.
The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff…
Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing.
He killed himself for wanting to live.”

“The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.”

“It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.”

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

“In wanting to kill himself, a man wants only to kill his consciousness of pain. I think therefore I am; therefore if I am not, I cannot think.”

“A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.”

“Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.”

“If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.”