Suicide Quotes

“My biggest fear is that one day you will see me the way I see myself.”

“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. Arnold J.” Toynbee

“A lot of you cared, just not enough.” Jay Asher

“He killed himself for wanting to live.” Markus Zusak

“Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It’s just too much for them.”

“But in the end, one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” Albert Camus

“I can’t eat, and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”― Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story

“You tell me to try. I do. I resist the urge to die every day.”

“I’ve given up already in life, but something or someone keeps pushing me to keep going.” Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.” Charles J Shields

“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

“Life is a bitch; you get used though, or you kill yourself.” Ahmed Mostafa

“The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.” Christine De Pizan

“I tried to tell them. But they just keep laughing at me for wanting it.”

“No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.” A. Alvarez

“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.” Gerard Way

“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

“Killing yourself slowly is still killing yourself. Wanting to die is not the same as wanting to come home. Recovery is hard work. Not wanting to die is hard work.” Blythe Baird

“It’s hard to wake up and smell the roses when the roses are wilted, and you never want to wake up.”

“Early on, if I was alone two or three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.” Jack Nicholson

“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.” David Levithan

“Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism.” 

“People do not die from suicide. They die from sadness.”

“Suicide does not mean there was no killer.”

“Suicide isn’t cowardly, wanna know what’s cowardly? Treating someone so badly that they want to end their life.”

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

“Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it, and you enact it. All carefully staged-where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.” Philip Roth

“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.” David Hume

“Death is life’s way of telling you you’re fired. Suicide is your way of telling life you quit.” Anonymous

“It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way, one gets through many a bad night.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers.” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.” Jennifer Niven

“Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.” Dick Cavett

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 Borrow

“Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is morally desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere.”

“Nowadays, Suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.”

“Nobody has ever killed themselves over a broken arm. But every day, thousands of people kill themselves because of a broken heart. Why-Because emotional pain hurts much worse than physical pain.” Oliver Markus

“To want to kill yourself, however, requires a whole extra level of passion and a certain directed violence.” Andrew Solomon

“You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all.” Patrick Ness

“I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won’t.” Susanna Kaysen

All I ever wanted was to be noticed, be talked to, have friends! Not be that one person that no one remembers was there. Suicide just seemed like the best way to slap them in the face and say, “I’m here too!”.

“Suicide. It’s something I’ve been thinking about. Not too seriously, but I have been thinking about it.” ― Jay Asher

“I want to commit suicide but am afraid someone will think I am crazy.” ― Carl White

“If you haven’t noticed the scars on my wrists, or the fake smile on my lips, or the forced laugh that I’ve adopted, or the way I don’t care about the things I used to love, then don’t you dare stand at my grave and cry. How can you cry for someone you don’t even know?”

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror, and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.” ― J. Michael Straczynski

“Most of the time, I wish I was dead. I hate myself so much every day. My thoughts are killing me. I feel lost inside myself. I don’t want to be here anymore. I’m tired of this. I think too much. I’m never okay. I’m always faking a smile. My very own thoughts are suffocating me.”

“I’m not afraid of dying anymore. I’m more afraid of living. I don’t see the point anymore. Was there ever one? Because if it was to just go through life, feeling the way I do, then I don’t wanna be here.”

“Suicide seemed to me the greatest kind of freedom, a release from everything, from a life that had been ruined a long time ago.” Natascha Kampusch

“I spend a lot of time wondering what dying feels like. What dying sounds like. If I’ll burst like those notes, let out my last cries of pain, and then go silent forever. Or maybe I’ll turn into a shadowy static that’s barely there, if you just listen hard enough.” ― Jasmine Warga

“As I tied the noose, I thought about who would miss me? After coming up with no names, I knew I was making the right choice, and it would hurt nobody.”

“Death is easy. To live is the most painful thing I could imagine, and I’m weak and no longer willing to fight.”

“People kill themselves because they can’t find another way to end their sadness, loneliness, or pain. If, after a suicide attempt, you feel guilt, it may be justified. Pain can be helped with a balm; loneliness can be cured with the company, and sadness can be helped by caring.”

“I used to think it utterly normal that I suffered from “suicidal ideation” on an almost daily basis. In other words, for as long as I can remember, the thought of ending my life came to me frequently and obsessively.” ― Stephen Fry

“Sometimes, I wonder, is there a heaven? A hell? I’ll find out. After all, my life is worthless.”

“Most of the time, I do not want to die. But I would like to have the means of death within my grasp. I want to feel the luxury of choice, to know the answer to “How do I bear this?” need not always be “Endure.” ― Anna Lyndsey

“I don’t know, and I don’t care anymore. I was supposed to have my way for once, just once in my life – I did everything right, and I got nothing for it – I want to kill them all. No, better yet, I want to die. No, even better than that: I want to kill them all then die.”― Barry Lyga

“I cut myself not because I want to, but because I have to – I have to cover up the emotional pain by the physical pain. It’s easy healing the wound on the outside than on the inside.”

“When you are young and healthy, you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday, you’re laughing again.” Marilyn Monroe