Suicide Quotes

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more tha...

Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide ...

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, ...

She didn’t want to die. She couldn’t imagine wanting to die…Death was for—for other people.

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

HC: You think I shall differently tomorrow? [about suicide]J: People do.HC: Yes, perhaps. If you're ...

Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same. You are truthful and clear-minde...

If the Emperor had not delivered his [15 August 1945] address urging the Japanese people to lay down...

Suicide may be a declaration of bankruptcy which passes judgement on a life as one long history of f...

No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.

Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box an...

Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations...

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that c...

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are myrevolt, my freedom, and my passion. By t...

There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginn...

The mind, when it reaches its limits, must make a judgment and choose its conclusions. This is where...

Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything?

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

You ought to know, you were my best friend. You were. I know you loved me. I loved you.No one should...

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.

Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat.

But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask wh...

Wanting to Die Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that vo...

Anne, I don't want to live. . . . Now listen, life is lovely, but I Can't Live It. I can't even expl...

HELENA. What a fine day! Not too hot. [A pause.]VOITSKI. A fine day to hang oneself.

This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all rom...

The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale gr...

I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that ...

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted...

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched ...

Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entit...

Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of...

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicid...

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,...

Political courage is not political suicide.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outwei...

It will generally be found that as soon the terrors of live reach the point where they outweigh the ...

However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way o...

Islam is not unusual in having a tradition of martyrs. What is unique to Islam is the tradition of m...

There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch t...

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!

Hanged"I hung myself today. Hanged? Whatever,the point is I hanged myself today and I’m stillhanging...

I’m happy to just be able to come across things. I don’t need to be happy. Happiness is a kind of ch...

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever cha...

A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were...

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

We can stick anything into the fogand make it look like a ghostbut tonightlet us not become tragedie...

O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune b...

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who care...

I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead...

So, what are you?""What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are...

I could have forced myself to adapt," said Taads. "In this world the individual self is of such impo...

All their lives Nath had understood, better than anyone, the lexicon of their family, the things the...

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know ...

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know ...

we know God is dead, they’ toldus, but listening to you I wasn’ sure. maybeit was the upper case. yo...

I canalmost understandwhypeopleleapfrombridges.

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

Why does a man destroy himself or what destroys him? I would have to judge that suicide is mostly th...

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life...

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I be...

The Koran is empathetic about the rights of other religions to practice their own beliefs. It unequi...

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to s...

Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

Suicide is very contagious.

The precious gift of life must be preserved no matter now painful and pointless it seemed. Peace, I ...

The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.

The stamp is something left over from an inpatient hospital program. In some other program RELEASED ...

I am finding myself: it's deadly because only death concludes me. But I bear it until the end. I'll ...

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of ...

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curs...

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curs...

I dont believe in God. Can you understand that? Look around you man. Cant you see? The clamour and d...

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I ha...

So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew....

He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that ...

There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession.

The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ...

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you j...

The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote ...

When people call it [depression] I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds li...

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, k...

I think there must be probably different types of suicides. I'm not one of the self-hating ones. The...

Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, lik...

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

If my life be not my own, it were criminal for me to put it in danger, as well as to dispose of it; ...

When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the effo...

The lovelorn, the cry-for-helpers, all mawkish tragedians who give suicide a bad name are the idiots...

People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call...

Life without meaningcannot be borne.We find a missionto which we're sworn--or answer the callof Deat...