Suicide Quotes

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing.

To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the di...

I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable.I stare...

Every man has a right to kill himself.

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history...

The parallel between these animals sick from surplus value and humans sick from industrial concentra...

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together t...

I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself.I was up to my chin when the shout cam...

and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with...

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her ...

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If...

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

The way I see it, he's all we have left ofher.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was ...

Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe i...

I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belong...

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attemp...

We human beings glimpse lofty ideals, catch ourselves betraying them, and sink to suicidal despair--...

... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel ang...

Keep passing the open windows.

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviola...

I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ulti...

He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike pur...

We who were not so pathologically far out on the spectrum of self-involvement, we dwellers of the vi...

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves ...

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, ...

He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The dan...

This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- bu...

I would have to go back into my past and deal with Adrian. My philosopher friend, who gazed on life ...

The law, and society, and religion all said it was impossible to be sane, healthy, and kill yourself...

After a long analysis of Robson’s suicide, we concluded that it could only be considered philosophic...

Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study co...

When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, th...

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—an...

It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decisio...

Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is ha...

Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seeme...

I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and san...

I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had ...

God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...

It was suicide, wasn't it?""In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan politi...

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever ...

Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that sho...

You cynical shit," he told himself. Then he started to weep."Don't be so fucking sentimental," Crake...

When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laug...

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the crea...

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noi...

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but wor...

No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me ...

You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, the...

It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think t...

Suicide is the night train, speeding your way to darkness.

Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. Th...

What point is there in dying in a ward, listening to the moans and rasps of the terminally ill? Woul...

why does Anna Karenina kill herself? the answer seems clear enough: for years people in her world ha...

Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principl...

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself ...

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punis...

There are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thin...

Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared.

Bad thing upon bad thing upon bad thing until you can't take anymore, and then it's off to the neare...

A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a ta...

I could feel the weight of everything then --- the weight of loneliness, of everything that had gone...

There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that ou...

[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going...

Look at the statistics. You're more likely to top yourself if you've just gone through a divorce. Or...

Because . . . most of us think that the point is something to do with work, or kids, or family, or w...

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope ...

Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves becaus...

In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powe...

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idi...

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never sa...

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somew...

I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it....

In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud ...

Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, decla...

Lady Windermere: Windermere and I married for love.Duchess of Berwick: Yes, we begin like that. It w...

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . ...

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

Did you see her again in France?" I asked him.”“No. When I got to France, she was already dead. She ...

She didn't struggle and so she didn't grow

She was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.

We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who deci...

Suicide is an act of man and not of the animal.

So it's back once more, back up the slope.Why do they always ruin my ropewith their cuts?I felt so r...

Cuba will be free. I already am.

Messy, isn't it?

There seemed no answer. He wasn't resigned to anything, he hadn't accepted or adjusted to the life h...

…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a pers...

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting i...