Suicide quotations

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◆ It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

- Emilie Autumn99

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

- Bill Maher99

◆ Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

- Joseph Conrad99

◆ If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

- Gerard Way99

◆ I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

- Susanna Kaysen99

◆ ...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

- Vincent van Gogh99

◆ Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

- Emilie Autumn99

◆ My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.

- Nina LaCour99

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

- Emil Cioran99

◆ No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt

- Hunter S. Thompson99

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

- George Sand99

◆ Anne, I don't want to live. . . . Now listen, life is lovely, but I Can't Live It. I can't even explain. I know how silly it sounds . . . but if you knew how it Felt. To be alive, yes, alive, but not be able to live it. Ay that's the rub. I am like a stone that lives . . . locked outside of all that's real. . . . Anne, do you know of such things, can you hear???? I wish, or think I wish, that I were dying of something for then I could be brave, but to be not dying, and yet . . . and yet to [be] behind a wall, watching everyone fit in where I can't, to talk behind a gray foggy wall, to live but to not reach or to reach wrong . . . to do it all wrong . . . believe me, (can you?) . . . what's wrong. I want to belong. I'm like a jew who ends up in the wrong country. I'm not a part. I'm not a member. I'm frozen.

- Anne Sexton99

◆ The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

- David Foster Wallace99

◆ Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

- Susanna Kaysen99