Killing Yourself Quotes

• Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

  Jim Butcher

  Laughter, Laughing, Sanity

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.217, Penguin

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• It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicide, Suicidal, Too Late

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

  Robert Crumb

  Suicide, Commitment, People

  "'When I was four, I knew I was weird'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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• its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

  Ned Vizzini

  Want, Above And Beyond, Conjunctions

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• Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Beer, Emotional

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• If you're going to kill yourself just do me one favor: say it was because of my act. Can you do that? I need the press.

  Doug Stanhope

  Needs, Favors, Ifs

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• That sounds so weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you. But killing someone is wrong, and I don't think suicide is. It's my life, right? I should be able to end it if I want to. I don't think it's a sin.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Suicide, Thinking, Killing Someone

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• You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.

  Elsa Triolet

  Time, Ends, End Times

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• The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.

  Jenny Joseph

  Suicide, Selfish, Commit

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• Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Wall, Drinking

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• Avice for a human. 87. Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. 88. Which is to say: don't kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars.

  Matt Haig

  Stars, Moving, Dark

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• In my little world, I'm very protected 'cause I'm treated like the idiot I am by my buddies. But, a little bit outside that world, people sometimes expect heavy things from me. For a little time, I tried to appease and not disappoint people but in the end you're just going to kill yourself and fail if you're trying to give more than you are.

  Devendra Banhart

  People, Giving, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself

  Jon Lajoie

  Eye, Fake, Dumb

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• There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay?  Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

  Tom Robbins

  Making Love, Answers, Serious

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.5, Bantam

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• You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Wise, Country

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• You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

  Philip K. Dick

  Taken, Idols, Giving

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

  Keith Richards

  Ideas, Killing, Retiring

  FaceBook post by Keith Richards from Sep 21, 2010

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• If you've gotten yourself into a situation when Clay Aiken is going to talk about his feelings with you, it's time to kill yourself.

  Penn Jillette

  Feelings, Clay, Time To Kill

  Penn Jillette (2012). “Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Bestselling Author of God, No!”, p.32, Penguin

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• You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

  Eddie Vedder

  Revenge, Sacrifice, Trying

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

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• Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.

  Thom Yorke

  Optimistic, Islands, Disappear Completely

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• Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow? It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it; tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn't diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.

  Adam Gopnik

  Men, People, Littles

  "Fascinating history" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2012.

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• I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Depression, Voice, Bipolar

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• Passing out while you try to kill yourself is like failing at failing.

  Maddox

  Trying, Failing, Passing

  "How to kill yourself like a man" by Maddox, www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net.

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• This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

  Marie Osmond

  Baby, Hurt, Psychosis

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• I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.

  Pete Wentz

  Crazy, Thinking, Killing

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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