Suicidal Quotes
374 Suicidal quotes by 258 unique authors
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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…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they…
— Nick Hornby
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their…
— Peter Høeg
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It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
— Sylvia Plath
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The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.
— Unknown Author
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... I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act I…
— Phillip Lopate
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I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body,…
— Phillip Lopate
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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…
— Sylvia Plath
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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
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
— Pliny the Elder
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It is silliness to live when to live is torment.
— William Shakespeare
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the…
— Al Alvarez
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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such…
— Edward Hoagland
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It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.
— Edward Hoagland
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And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
— Nicolas Chamfort
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To my friends: My work is done. Why wait? (suicide note)
— George Eastman
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They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)
— Vachel Lindsay
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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
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The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
— Sylvia Plath
Who Wrote These Suicidal Quotes
258 authors contributed a total of 374 Suicidal Quotes, led by these top contributors: