1,990 Quotes About Suicide

What the desperate are seeking is a way out. Suicide is one way; poetry is another.

If I were going to die, there would be time for that later--after doing everything I could and using all that I had to confront the systemic problems that I knew needed to change.

It is a brave thing to die.

the need to survivelit a fire in me

... he considered mankind a race of crazy half-monkeys, intent upon suicide.

Those who wish to go on living can always manage to survive whatever obstacles there may be. That is splendid of them, and I daresay that what people call the glory of mankind is comprised of just such a thing. But I am convinced that dying is not a sin. It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue. I am wanting. It has been all I could do to stay alive up to now.

That's the only thing someone who definitely wants to live and someone who definitely wants to die have in common: if you're going to jump off something, you need to be pretty damn sure of the height.

What if suffering doesn’t end with death? How can we know? What if it doesn’t get better? What if death isn’t an escape?

I wasn't going to kill myself, but I wasn't going to stop dumb luck from taking me out either.