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Quotes About Suicidal

It makes it hard to be alive, some days. A lot of times I wish I were dead, I truly do, just to make the pain stop.
~ E. Lockhart
You'll have to take me to some museums," he said. He was being the young man on the road, following the sun because gray weather made him suicidal, writing his poetry in his mind in diners and gas station men's rooms across the country.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.
~ Frank Herbert
But you invite ..." "I invite a bit of military nonsense." "That's what I ..." "Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson." "What lesson?" "The ultimately suicidal nature of military foolishness.
~ Frank Herbert
In our society, people shouldn't be quick to take offense. It's frequently suicidal.
~ Frank Herbert
There is something about the idea of coupling—of the notion that a stranger's behavior is tightly connected to place and context—that eludes us. It leads us to misunderstand some of our greatest poets, to be indifferent to the suicidal, and to send police officers on senseless errands.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
There is something about the idea of coupling—of the notion that a stranger's behavior is tightly connected to place and context—that eludes us. It leads us to misunderstand some of our greatest poets, to be indifferent to the suicidal, and to send police officers on senseless errands. So what happens when a police officer carries that fundamental misconception—and then you add to that the problems of default to truth and transparency? You get Sandra Bland. 1
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Berman observes, for instance, that much of the world now blames Israel for the suicidal derangement of the Palestinians.
~ Sam Harris
It's good to know that I'm not the only unsuicidal person thinking about killing herself.
~ Samantha Schutz
I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.
~ Brian Welch
You're the one who unleashed him. (Savitar) Yeah, well, let's move on from the blame game. I was having suicidal thoughts and it seemed like a good idea at the time. In retrospect, not so much. (Stryker)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.
~ Daniel Johns
One year on Christmas Eve he told us that Santa wasn't giving out any presents because he was depressed and suicidal.
~ John Leguizamo
You'll understand one day how murderous, how suicidal, individual isolation is. You'll cry then, suffocated by our culture's cannibal loving." He
~ Attia Hosain
In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
~ Kapil Sibal
Wanting to die (or 'suicidal ideation'as the experts would have it) goes hand in hand with the illness. It is a symptom of severe depression, not a character failing or moral flaw. Nor is it, truly, a desire to die so much as a fervent wish not to go on living. All depressives understand that distinction.
~ Sally Brampton
There is something suicidal in a writer's solitude. One is alone even in one's own solitude. Always inconceivable. Always dangerous. Yes. The price one pays for having dared go out and scream.
~ Marguerite Duras
I was not the only one who made the mistake of thinking that, because it was something you talked about a lot, it was something you wouldn't do. And after all, you were not the unhappiest person we knew. You were not the most depressed (think of G, of D, or T-R). You were not even - strange as it now sounds to say - the most suicidal. Because of the timing, so near the start of the year, it was possible to think that it had been a resolution.
~ Sigrid Nunez
If the modern world were a patient in my care..." She shook her head. "I would diagnose it suicidal.
~ John Shirley
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
~ Emil Cioran
I'm tired of my life and my mind wants to die.
~ Sarah Kane
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man — by choice; he has to hold his life as a value — by choice; he has to learn to sustain it — by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues — by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
~ Ayn Rand
He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.
~ Johnny Rich
I'm going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics—
~ Jojo Moyes