Quote by Victor Hugo

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like th

Summary

This quote emphasizes the distinction between the act of suicide and its consequences on others. It suggests that while self-inflicted death can be seen as a powerful and profound choice, it should not be extended to harm or cause suffering to those around us. The quote implies that suicide becomes morally problematic when it transcends individual agency and starts infringing upon the lives of others, transforming into an act of murder. It urges individuals to consider the ripple effects and moral implications of their actions, encouraging empathy and responsibility towards the well-being of others.

Topics

Suicide Revolution

By Victor Hugo

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful,

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

Hope

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

Happiness Depression

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your moth

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Mother

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dolla

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

Dad

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people fro

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

Hope

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Men & Women

I have a Volvo S60R and it's a pretty fast car, the R says i

I have a Volvo S60R and it's a pretty fast car, the R says it all.

Car

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so har

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

Morality Obsession

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expen

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.

Modern Modernism

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should t

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean

Menandwomen Compliments

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

Music

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Happiness