Killing Myself Quotes

• I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.

  David Levithan

  Suicide, Suicidal, Killing

  David Levithan (2015). “Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story”, p.148, Penguin

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• I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Thinking, Miracle

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Coffee, Optimistic

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• I'd commit suicide, if I could do it without killing myself.

  Henny Youngman

  Suicide, Killing, Commit

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• I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

  Joe Perry

  Killing, More Time, Glad

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• Kill myself? Killing myself is the last thing I'd ever do. Now I have a purpose, a reason to live. I don't care who I have to face, I don't care who I have to fight, I will not rest until this street gets a stop sign!

  Dan Castellaneta

  Fighting, Purpose, Care

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• I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Moments, Killing

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Killing, Changed

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

  Ivan Lendl

  Good Day, Bad Day, Killing

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• What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

  Russell Hoban

  Pain, Smoking, Want

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.21, A&C Black

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• The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

  David Sedaris

  Killing Someone, Hours, Miles

  David Sedaris (2010). “Naked”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• The one thing I'm jealous of a signature-artist situation is that if you just do one thing and slight variations on it, you wouldn't have to kill yourself to get a show done. I'm sick of killing myself.

  Jim Shaw

  Jealous, Artist, Sick

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

  Steven Wright

  Firsts, Killing, First Time

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• I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.

  Adam Levine

  Dream, Opportunity, Why Not

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• I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

  Elton John

  Country, Mean, Play

  "Elton John: 'When I was on drugs there was a monstrous side to me'". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2013.

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• I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

  Craig Ferguson

  Recovery, Thinking, Addiction

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• Who I believed myself to be was a hopeless case. I would wake up in the mornings and notice I was still alive and breathing and hate God, hate myself, hate life, and contemplate ways of killing myself.

  Byron Katie

  Morning, Hate, Breathing

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suicide, Differences, Waiting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My philosophy is, "murder the rapist in your mind so you stop killing yourself." I've seen, in my lifetime, that sexual abuse has turned into self-abuse. When I kill the rapist inside of me, I will stop killing myself.

  Margaret Cho

  Philosophy, Self, Abuse

  "The righteous rage of Margaret Cho". Interview with Alli Maloney, nytlive.nytimes.com. November 10, 2015.

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• The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, War, Gentleman

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.162, Dial Press

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• I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Way, Killing

  1603-4 Othello. Othello, act 5, sc.2, l.368-9.

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• But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

  Russell Hoban

  Funny, Humorous, Cigarette Smoke

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.21, A&C Black

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• I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

  Voltaire

  Heart, Hug, Weakness

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• I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad but that I couldn't commit suicide and then try MIT afterwards. The two operations, suicide and going to MIT, don't commute.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Suicide, Two, Trying

  "The Making of a Physicist". Edge.org Video interview, www.edge.org. June 30, 2003.

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• As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has.

  Joe Elliott

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

  "Interview with Joe Elliott of Def Leppard on Music, Humor, and Contributing to the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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