Wilfrid Sheed Quote

The rational man may talk a good game about suicide, but reason must give way to obsession and finally squalor before he can actually do it.

"A. Alvarez: The Savage God" (1972), p. 69 - The Good Word & Other Words (1978)

The rational man may talk a good game about suicide, but reason must give way to obsession and finally squalor before he can actually do it.

The rational man may talk a good game about suicide, but reason must give way to obsession and finally squalor before he can actually do it.

The rational man may talk a good game about suicide, but reason must give way to obsession and finally squalor before he can actually do it.

The rational man may talk a good game about suicide, but reason must give way to obsession and finally squalor before he can actually do it.