Suicidal Quotes

374 Suicidal quotes by 258 unique authors

It is silliness to live when to live is torment. — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live. — Edward Hoagland
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note) — Nicolas Chamfort
To my friends: My work is done. Why wait? (suicide note) — George Eastman
They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note) — Vachel Lindsay
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
The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind. — Sylvia Plath
The body is a damn hard thing to kill. — Anne Sexton
Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive. — Arthur Hugh Clough
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one. — Thomas Browne
The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building… — Joy Harjo
Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been… — Jean Rhys
He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor… — Flann O'Brien
You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were… — Franz Kafka
How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph! — Jules Renard
By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose… — Antonin Artaud
I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to. — Jennifer Jason Leigh
Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his… — Sylvia Plath
If I want to die, what am I saving myself for? — Joanne Greenberg
And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told… — Don McLean
Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long ... — Anne Sexton
I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot… — Unknown Author

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