Suicide Quotes

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

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicidal, Together Again, Back Together

  Antonin Artaud, Jack Hirschman (1963). “Artaud Anthology”, p.56, City Lights Books

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• A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

  Boris Spassky

  Men, Initiative, Commit

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• It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Easy, Commit, Contemplating

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.42, Jaico Publishing House

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• The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist.

  Kevin Carter

  Life, Pain, Joy

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• There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die. I am dying.

  Brittany Maynard

  Cancer, Suicidal, Emotional

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• We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

  George Sand

  Witty, Book, Fire

  Mauprat ch. 11 (1837)

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• All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Stories, Afternoon

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

  Phil Donahue

  Sad, Wise, Wisdom

  Attributed in "Psychology: Modules for Active Learning" by Dennis Coon, ‎John Mitterer, (p. 553), 2014.

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• If a doctor assists you in your suicide, it is called manslaughter, while if a tobacco company does, it is called commerce.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Doctors, Doe, Commerce

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.549, Penguin

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

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Notes, Gore

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

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• The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.

  William Styron

  Pain, Prevention, Awareness

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Pain, Suicidal, Want

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

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• We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

  Noel Coward

  Death, Guarantees That, Afterlife

  Noel Coward (1965). “Three plays by Noel Coward: Blithe spirit, Hay fever [and] Private lives”

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• The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Philosophy, Deep Thought

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• Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Smile, Uplifting

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• The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Way

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• When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Powerful

  "Malala Yousafzai addresses Harvard audience" by Brian MacQuarrie, www.bostonglobe.com. September 28, 2013.

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• Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Careers, Punctuation Marks, Artistic

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.108, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Death

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• Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it’s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Depression, Humor

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• When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

  Jeannette Walls

  Pain, Suicidal, Thinking

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• I am concerned that Millennials are stressed out. They have a higher suicide rate than other generations at their same age. They have the highest diagnosis of depression at their age than other generations. I think we have raised a generation that does not know how to be sad. They are programmed for success and the threat of failure is devastating.

  Chip Espinoza

  Thinking, Stressed, Age

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

  Stendhal

  Grief, Feelings, Would Be

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

  Albert Camus

  Coffee, Optimistic, Suicidal

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