Suicide Note Quotes

• Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar/
  Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/
  For her life, which will be so much happier without me/
  I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU.

  Kurt Cobain

  Suicide, Love You, Suicidal

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• I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

  Virginia Woolf

  Suicide, Voice, Mad

  Suicide note to her husband, 18 Mar. 1941

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• When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Suicide, Rights, Easy

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.333, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey 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, Suicidal

  Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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• I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)

  Wendy O. Williams

  Suicide, Believe, Suicidal

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• Suicide note. "To my friends. My work is done why wait?"

  George Eastman

  Suicide, Work, Suicidal

  "Chronicles of a second African trip".

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• Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

  Gore Vidal

  Suicide, Writing, Notes

  Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]

  Lupe Velez

  Suicide, Baby, Suicidal

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• They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)

  Vachel Lindsay

  Suicide, Suicidal, Firsts

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• The longest suicide note in history.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Suicide, Notes, Labour Party

  Describing the Labour Party's 'New Hope for Britain' (1983), in Denis Healey 'The Time of My Life' (1989) ch. 23

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• I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Sleep, Usual, Eternity

  Death note, www.imdb.com. May 3, 1991.

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• The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

  Greg Knight

  Suicide, Party, Election

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• I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.

  Kurt Cobain

  Passion, Remember, Burn Out

  "Frances Bean Cobain pays tribute to dad Kurt on his birthday" by Andrea Park, www.cbsnews.com. February 20, 2017.

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• What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. Everything is gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

  Michael Cunningham

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Fictional character: Virginia Woolf". "The Hours", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

  Kurt Cobain

  Self, Miserable, Highlander

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• It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.

  Kurt Cobain

  Children, Order, Appreciate

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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, Suicidal

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

  Virginia Woolf

  Way, Saved, Has Beens

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “The Voyage Out”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  Neil Young

  Death, Running, Believe

  "My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (song) (1978). The last sentence was quoted by singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 Apr. 1994. See Richard Cumberland 1

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• Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

  John Irving

  Suicide, Sorry, Crazy

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• And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Suicide, Heart, Suicidal

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• Dear world, I am leaving because I am bored.

  George Sanders

  Bored, Leaving, World

  "Oscars: The Sad Stories of 9 Acting Nominees Who Committed Suicide" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 26, 2014.

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• Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
  My love, you are in my heart.
  It was preordained we should part
  And be reunited by and by.
  Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
  Let's have no sadness - furrowed brow.
  There's nothing new in dying now
  Though living is no newer.

  Sergei Yesenin

  Goodbye, Suicide, Love You

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• Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

  George Sanders

  Suicide, Sweet, Good Luck

  "Oscars: The Sad Stories of 9 Acting Nominees Who Committed Suicide" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 26, 2014.

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• If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Perfect, Ruins, Manage

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