Suicide Quotes

Life without meaningcannot be borne.We find a missionto which we're sworn--or answer the callof Deat...

I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flun...

I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which m...

I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, "How gay 't...

If wild my breast and sore my pride,I bask in dreams of suicide,If cool my heart and high my headI t...

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,We people on the pavement looked at him:He was a gentleman from...

He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o' aught on earth. He thought God could na ...

It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It w...

If my Valentine you won't be,I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbea...

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness wo...

It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they h...

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone wou...

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of considera...

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive hi...

The young doctor was disappointed: he had never had th eopportunity to study the effects of gold cya...

And only after he said it did he realize that among the countless suicides he could remember, this w...

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. D...

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. D...

Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with...

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

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness ...

He beheld in swift succession the incidents in the brief tale of his experience. His wretched home, ...

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in o...

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose yo...

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afr...

I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know ...

It's not so easy for people to end their own lives. It's not like in the movies. There, they do it l...

All's well that ends well.''Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said.Tamaru formed some short...

I'm going to live to be twenty-five,' she said, 'then die.

Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too m...

Her words didn’t have the acrid smell of death.

Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, o...

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusio...

All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of the...

Lucien took the cigar and lit it, in the Spanish fashion, from that of the priest. "He is right," Lu...

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...

A man reduced to despair by a series of misfortunes feels wearied of life, but is still so far in po...

if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, str...

Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of ...

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave ...

If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things ref...

The body, I had been taught, wants only to live. Suicide, I had understood, is an act not of the bod...

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing.

To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the di...

I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable.I stare...

Every man has a right to kill himself.

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history...

The parallel between these animals sick from surplus value and humans sick from industrial concentra...

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together t...

I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself.I was up to my chin when the shout cam...

and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with...

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her ...

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If...

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

The way I see it, he's all we have left ofher.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was ...

Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe i...

I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belong...

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attemp...

We human beings glimpse lofty ideals, catch ourselves betraying them, and sink to suicidal despair--...

... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel ang...

Keep passing the open windows.

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviola...

I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ulti...

He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike pur...

We who were not so pathologically far out on the spectrum of self-involvement, we dwellers of the vi...

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves ...

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, ...

He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The dan...

This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- bu...

I would have to go back into my past and deal with Adrian. My philosopher friend, who gazed on life ...

The law, and society, and religion all said it was impossible to be sane, healthy, and kill yourself...

After a long analysis of Robson’s suicide, we concluded that it could only be considered philosophic...

Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study co...

When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, th...

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—an...

It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decisio...

Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is ha...

Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seeme...

I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and san...

I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had ...

God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...

It was suicide, wasn't it?""In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan politi...

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

I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever ...

Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that sho...

You cynical shit," he told himself. Then he started to weep."Don't be so fucking sentimental," Crake...

When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laug...

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the crea...

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noi...

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but wor...