Killing Myself Quotes

• I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.

  David Levithan

  Suicide, Suicidal, Killing

  David Levithan (2015). “Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story”, p.148, Penguin

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  Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Coffee, Optimistic

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• I'd commit suicide, if I could do it without killing myself.

  Henny Youngman

  Suicide, Killing, Commit

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• Kill myself? Killing myself is the last thing I'd ever do. Now I have a purpose, a reason to live. I don't care who I have to face, I don't care who I have to fight, I will not rest until this street gets a stop sign!

  Dan Castellaneta

  Fighting, Purpose, Care

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• I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Thinking, Miracle

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Moments, Killing

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

  Ivan Lendl

  Good Day, Bad Day, Killing

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• I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

  Joe Perry

  Killing, More Time, Glad

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• I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.

  Adam Levine

  Dream, Opportunity, Why Not

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• I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

  Elton John

  Country, Mean, Play

  "Elton John: 'When I was on drugs there was a monstrous side to me'". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2013.

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• I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

  Craig Ferguson

  Recovery, Thinking, Addiction

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• Who I believed myself to be was a hopeless case. I would wake up in the mornings and notice I was still alive and breathing and hate God, hate myself, hate life, and contemplate ways of killing myself.

  Byron Katie

  Morning, Hate, Breathing

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Way, Killing

  1603-4 Othello. Othello, act 5, sc.2, l.368-9.

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• The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, War, Gentleman

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.162, Dial Press

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• My philosophy is, "murder the rapist in your mind so you stop killing yourself." I've seen, in my lifetime, that sexual abuse has turned into self-abuse. When I kill the rapist inside of me, I will stop killing myself.

  Margaret Cho

  Philosophy, Self, Abuse

  "The righteous rage of Margaret Cho". Interview with Alli Maloney, nytlive.nytimes.com. November 10, 2015.

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• Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suicide, Differences, Waiting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Killing, Changed

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• The one thing I'm jealous of a signature-artist situation is that if you just do one thing and slight variations on it, you wouldn't have to kill yourself to get a show done. I'm sick of killing myself.

  Jim Shaw

  Jealous, Artist, Sick

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

  Steven Wright

  Firsts, Killing, First Time

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• I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on this idea that's been kicking around and then like 30 pages in I'll just go try a novel because it's a lot easier. That's what I know. So why am I killing myself?

  Colson Whitehead

  Couple, Procrastination, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

  David Sedaris

  Killing Someone, Hours, Miles

  David Sedaris (2010). “Naked”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• [I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Powerful, Fantasy

  Anne Sexton, Webster's II Dictionaries, Lois Ames (1979). “Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters”, Mariner Books

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• THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT'S NOT LUCK, IT'S NOT FAIRY DUST, IT'S NOT GOOD GENES. IT'S KILLING MYSELF FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF FIVE DAYS A WEEK, BUT WHAT I GET OUT OF IT IS RELATIVE TO WHAT I PUT INTO IT.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Inspirational, Fitness, Kids

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• In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

  Jerry Kramer

  November, Patient, Killing

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• I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers in preventing suicide. It's a very good thing to decrease suicide but we should care at least a little if I'm not killing myself because I feel better or if I just can't remember where I put the damn gun.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Suicide, Feel Better, Gun

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