Quotes About Suicide

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.

You are weak. A weakling barging into enemy territory is suicide. 'To rescue Rukia?' Stop being so childish. Don't use other people as an excuse to go kill yourself - Kisuke Urahara

The lesson was the same: This program is subject to change -- often unexpectedly, sometimes in the batting of an eye. It's the best argument I know against suicide.

This program is subject to change -- often unexpectedly, sometimes in the batting of an eye. It's the best argument I know against suicide.

One of his students was an intense young man who was interested in writing fiction. My father lent him some books and talked to him for hours about the art of the novel. The boy went on to write a novel himself, a colorful fantasy about New Orleans, but no one wanted to publish it. He later killed himself. His name was John Kennedy Toole

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide Day.

The children of suicides are hard to please and quick to believe no one loves them because they are not really here.

Joy Division was scheduled to play at Tier 3, but Ian Curtis killed himself a week before the gig.

Sir if I was your daughter I would wait until this train started again and throw myself in front of it!

Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting for us ahead, and the death that comes pursuing from behind.... Once you are free at least from the death that comes pursuing you, you can relax and enjoy life as you go along.

Coping with any death is traumatic; suicide compounds the anguish because we are forced to deal with two traumatic events at the same time. According to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the level of stress resulting from the suicide of a loved one is ranked as catastrophic–equivalent to that of a concentration camp experience.

The roller coaster of emotions following a suicide causes intense feelings of isolation and a breaking apart from all that once seemed familiar.

Boltzmann was not taken seriously. At the age of fifty-six, in Duino, near Trieste, he committed suicide. Today he is considered one of the geniuses of physics.

A suicide club? You're a bit young for such a dead-end idea." The girl only lifted one slight shoulder in response, and her friend said, "We're from Jersey," as if that said it all.

Bullies judge. Victims take it in. Sometimes it remains inside and can lead to depression and suicide. Sometimes it explodes into violence.

Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.

On account of disastrous losses in Wall Street that morning, I had determined to kill myself. I'm not of much account, any way, and I was desperate. I knew Uncle Robert would give me no money to repay my stock losses, for he always thought speculation no better than any other sort of gambling—and it isn't.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part, that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.