Suicidal Quotes

• Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Suicide, Pain, Want

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.68, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Needs, Reason

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

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Coffee, Optimistic

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• When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Friendship, Relationship

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• It is silliness to live when to live is torment.

  William Shakespeare

  Silliness, Torment

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [307]

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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• Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Punishment, Favour

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• I hate myself, and I want to die

  Kurt Cobain

  Sad, Hate, Want

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• When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Suicide Inspirational

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• If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Funny Love, Wise

  "The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas".

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• Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

  Emilie Autumn

  Suicide, People, Bipolar

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

  David Levithan

  Suicide, Killing, Torn

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

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• I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

  Charles Bukowski

  Lonely, Loneliness, Numbers

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• Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Crazy, Real, Tired

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Taken, Journey, Despair

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.236, Vintage

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• The fact that some people can push others to the point of thinking that their lives are not worthy is catastrophic.

  Melissa Reeves

  Thinking, People, Facts

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• If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

  George Henry Borrow

  Suicide, Sight, Lost

  Lavengro Ch. XXIII

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• God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Morning, Rain

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

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• The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suicide, Night, Comfort

  'Jenseits von Gut und Böse' [Beyond Good and Evil] (1886) ch. 4, no. 157

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

  Albert Camus

  Life, Suicide, Courage

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• I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. But since the tendency toward inertia means that it's easier for me to stay alive than die, I guess that's how it's going to be, so I guess I should try to be happy.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Mean, Trying, Alive

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Bill Maher

  Death, God, Suicide

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• I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now.

  Sara Teasdale

  Suicide, Rain, Tree

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Solitary Life, Meditation Practice

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• It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start thinking about what would happen if I stepped off, the rush of the fall, the shattering collision, the quiet emptiness of death. Part of me wants to experience the thrill of complete surrender.

  Darren Shan

  Fall, Thinking, Feelings

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