Suicide Quotes and Sayings! 50+ Sad Suicidal Thoughts Quotes
Suicide Quotes and Sayings
“Nine men in ten are would be suicides.” —Benjamin Franklin
“All healthy men have thought of their own suicide.” —Albert Camus
“I couldn’t commit suicide if my life depended on it.” —George Carlin
“Suicide is a way of telling God, You can’t fire me I quit.” —Bill Maher
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” —Albert Camus
“The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.” —Chuck Palahniuk
“When someone commits suicide, most of his acquaintances are afflicted with guilt in addition to grief.” —Boghos L. Artinian
“Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.” —W. Somerset Maugham
“We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.” —George Sand
“The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.” —Ernest Hemingway
“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.” —Chuck Palahniuk
“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.” —Charles Caleb Colton
Sad Suicidal Thoughts Quotes and Sayings
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.” —Phil Donahue
“All healthy men have thought of their own suicide.” —Albert Camus
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.” —David Levithan
“I just couldn’t live with myself knowing I had just killed myself.” —Author Unknown
“Suicide is man’s way of telling God, You can’t fire me-I quit.” —Bill Maher
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” —Albert Camus
“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren’t in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.” —Vaclav Havel
“There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.” —Cyril Connolly
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.” —Chuck Palahniuk
“We couldn’t imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.” —Jeffrey Eugenides
“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.”
“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.”
“I’m not glorifying it at all, I’m just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it’s not that deep.”
“You think suicide is cowardly? I’ll tell you what’s cowardly. Hurting someone so much that they think ending their lives is the only way to make it better.” —Ashley Purdy
“Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.” —Gerard Way
“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.” —Charles Caleb
“I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.” —Clara Blandick
“Suicide creates a monstrous emotional upsurge of shame and guilt. Everyone participates in feeling responsible and even shamed at knowing the suicidal candidate. If these feelings are not healed the vampire of suicidal death can strike again and again.” —Linda Lee Landon
“I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people’s treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to.” —Sinead O’Connor
“Anyone desperate enough for suicide…should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.” —Richard Bach
“At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.” —Cesare Pavese
“From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical “I gotcha!” It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.” —Stanley Hauerwas
“Suicide is a form of murder – premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.” —Susanna Kaysen
“I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No matter how much mutilation or pain. But he looked away, at me. He pulled my face down and pressed my lips against his like he was almost trying to suffocate us both.” —Francesca Lia Block
“If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.” —Antonin Artaud
“Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment — a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man’s existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
Suicide Prevention Quotes and Sayings
“Never, never, never give up.” —Winston Churchill
“If you’re looking for a sign not to kill yourself, this is it.” —Unknown
“When you feel like giving up, just remember the reason why you held on for so long.” —Unknown
“Soak up the views. Take in the bad weather and the good weather. You are not the storm.” —Matt Haig
Suicide doesn’t end the chances of life getting worse, it eliminates the possibility of it ever getting any better.” —Unknown
“The person who completes suicide, dies once. Those left behind die a thousand deaths, trying to relive those terrible moments and understand… why?” —Clark
“If you want to show me that you really love me, don’t say that you would die for me, and instead stay alive for me.” —Unknown
“Place your hand over your heart, can you feel it? That is called purpose. You’re alive for a reason so don’t ever give up.” —Unknown