My favorite qoute about suicide /death.

[Daystavro]

I hate religion.
I am 100% atheist.
But there is one quote which I like.
It's from Ecclesiastes 4 :

"And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive.
But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that exists under the sun".

 

[Sharethepain]

Amen

 

[nzdarkshark]

Very true, amen to that.

 

[Prime]

Amen

 

[Volatile]

 

[Deafsn0w]

 

[VincentValentine]

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This quote really hits home for me because if I wasn't going to ctb now, I would be halfway through my life.

 

[lv-gras]

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nice

 

[Zzzzz]

Amen. This is one of those verses that christians probably don't like talking about lol. Better are those who are not born at all. Better is nonexistence. What was it like before I was born? I don't recall anything scary,painful or unpleasant about it. I don't recall anything about it.

 

[skitliv]

Reminds me of the Wisdom of Silenus:

"Pertinently to this they say that Midas, after hunting, asked his captive Silenus somewhat urgently, what was the most desirable thing among humankind. At first he could offer no response, and was obstinately silent. At length, when Midas would not stop plaguing him, he erupted with these words, though very unwillingly: 'you, seed of an evil genius and precarious offspring of hard fortune, whose life is but for a day, why do you compel me to tell you those things of which it is better you should remain ignorant? For he lives with the least worry who knows not his misfortune; but for humans, the best for them is not to be born at all, not to partake of nature's excellence; not to be is best, for both sexes. This should be our choice, if choice we have; and the next to this is, when we are born, to die as soon as we can.' "

 

[Schopenhauer]

I can drink to that quote!

 

[bigj75]

 

[bigj75]

Ecclesiastes 8:14
"There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless."

 

[Trashcan]

"Life is like soccer. My mom signed me up and expects me to do my best even though I hate fucking soccer."

 

[zzz919]

@Daystavro ...... That is a Brilliant quote ...... Thank You for sharing it!
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Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 New International Version (NIV)
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1 Again I looked and saw all the oppression
that was taking place under the sun:
I saw the tears of the oppressed
and they have no comforter;
Power was on the side of their oppressors
and they have no comforter.

2 And I declared that the dead,
who had already died,
are happier than the living,
who are still alive.

3 But better than both
is the one who has never been born,
who has not seen the evil
that is done under the sun.

 

[zzz919]

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

— Chuck Palahniuk

 

[zzz919]

"Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

— Dylan Thomas

 

[zzz919]

"Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all — the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved."

— Mark Twain

 

[Deafsn0w]

"I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare"

- Ned Vizzini

 

[Deafsn0w]

 

[Dani Paradox]

"Fuck it." -Dani Paradox

 

[Donna]

 

[JosiahB]

"Death is for many of us the gate of hell;
but we are inside on the way out,
not outside on the way in."
~ George Bernard Shaw

 

[DeepSleep]

"Yo Johnny! I'll see you in the next life!"



No reference to any religious superstition bs, it just looks and sounds so cool by Patrick Swayze. :)

 

[Letting Go]

Here's a quote about people choosing to end their lives at popular locations like the Golden Gate Bridge:

"Perhaps jumping from a popular site is a way of committing a public act. Many suicides are lonely and estranged from society, so sharing an experience with thousands links them in death to a community they never had in life."

-Marc Etkind from the book "Or Not to Be: A Collection of Suicide Notes"

 

[Letting Go]

Here's another one that I came across recently:

"Suicide is illegal because it is a crime to destroy government property."

Not sure who said that. Found it on Quora.

 

[Dead Meat]

Suicide is man's way of telling God, You can't fire me - I quit.

 

[longingforrelease]

Albert Camus: "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy."

 

[Xaphous]

"Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?" ~ Albert Camus

 

[TAW122]

Normally, I don't turn to the Bible for comfort as I'm an atheist as well and don't agree with the (vast majority if not almost all the) Bible's teachings and Jesus's ways. However, this is quite a gem of a quote! Good find @Daystavro !

I do want to add however, that Christian apologists and people in the US particularly, would try to reinterpret this to not be about suicide/death, avoid directly dealing with it, or try to cherry-pick and deconstruct it to something else. It is quite sad that religious apologists try to use logical fallacies and reframing to reinterpret the Bible or the verses to fit their moral standards or that of society's and even most pastors nowadays would try to spin it as anti-death, anti-suicide when it clearly is about finding peace from suffering. Not to knock the Bible further, but one of the biggest reasons that I don't turn to the Bible is due to it's contradictions as a whole.