Suicide · Skopia

Quotes

10

Play · Tragedy (play)

To be or not to be—that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep— No more—and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep— To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 8.7

Essay · Philosophical literature

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.

The Myth of Sisyphus · 1942

★ 6.1

Suicide... Is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

1978

★ 5.1

Play · Tragedy (play)

O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God, God, How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 4.7

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Books

8

Anna Karenina

1877★ 9.6

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1774★ 7.3

The Myth of Sisyphus

1942★ 7.2

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford

1915★ 7.0

Ethan Frome

1911★ 7.0

Suicide

1897★ 6.8

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Songs

8

Stan

2000★ 8.7

Ode to Billie Joe

1967★ 7.3

Jeremy

1992★ 6.8

Whiskey Lullaby

Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss

2004★ 5.8

Someone Saved My Life Tonight

1975★ 5.0

Adam's Song

1999★ 5.0

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