Quotes about dark humor

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

I long to be free — desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free.

No one I met at this time — doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients — failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.