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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

  Emma Forrest

  Darkness, Killing, Ifs

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.205, A&C Black

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• I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.

  Pete Wentz

  Games, Wonder, Sin

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Don't kill yourself, kill the part of you that you don't like.

  Shane Dawson

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• If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

  Diana Vreeland

  Thinking, Might, Today

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Knives, Use, Want

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.277, Macmillan

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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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• It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.

  Andrew Bird

  Records, Half, Like You

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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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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• All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.

  Isaac Marion

  Memories, Voice, People

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.

  Paul Giamatti

  Men, Plath, Woolf

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• She looks like a jumper to me. Jumpers do that a lot, stand on the edge and stare out. Never kill yourself in a Tube station. Tip number one. You might end up down here forever, staring at the wall." Stephen coughed a little. "Just giving advice," Callum said.

  Maureen Johnson

  Wall, Numbers, Giving

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.132, Penguin

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• I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Suicidal

  Annie Hall (motion picture) (1977). Cowritten with Marshall Brickman. This joke appeared in a monologue recorded live in August 1968 and released on The Third Woody Allen Album.

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• When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicide, People, Want

  "The Trouble With Being Born". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1973.

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• Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow have to kill yourself. This is asked of people who haven't got the tools to understand that it's all a social construction, and that they shouldn't inferiorize themselves. This is asked of little kids. But I still live in the same outcome.

  Abdellah Taia

  Kids, Gay, People

  "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

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