Suicide Quotes

• Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.

  Ashley Purdy

  Bvb, People, Black Veil Brides

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• 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.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Pain, Suicidal, Want

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.68, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

  George Sand

  Witty, Book, Fire

  Mauprat ch. 11 (1837)

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• Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

  Phil Donahue

  Sad, Wise, Wisdom

  Attributed in "Psychology: Modules for Active Learning" by Dennis Coon, ‎John Mitterer, (p. 553), 2014.

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• The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.

  William Styron

  Pain, Prevention, Awareness

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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

  Albert Camus

  Coffee, Optimistic, Suicidal

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• But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Courage, Philosophy

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• No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.

  Li Ang

  People, Reason, Commit

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• To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Heart

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Smile, Uplifting

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• Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

  Bill Maher

  Death, God, Suicidal

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• That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Heart, Bars, Chill

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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  Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Being Happy

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 12, 2017

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• Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it’s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Depression, Humor

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• Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

  Jean Racine

  Death, Despair, Lasts

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• Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.

  Gerard Way

  Pain, Suicidal, Needs

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• They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Death, Suicidal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Georges Bernanos

  Darkness, Tempted, Predestined

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  Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

  Tori Amos

  Inspirational, Motivational, Healing

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• I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Ideas, Solitude, Would Be

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Philosophy, Deep Thought

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• You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Death, Freedom

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

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  Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Real, Prevention, Hell

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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