1,990 Quotes About Suicide

Suicide seemed to me the greatest kind of freedom, a release from everything, from a life that had been ruined a long time ago.

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

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

I do not own a gun because the only person I would shoot with it is myself.

Some things are not worth dying for, but without them life is not worth living.

Optimism is an effort.

I think, if you aren’t expressing yourself to other people, and you aren’t letting them into your life and sharing your pain with them, you’ll never know that you’re setting a bomb off. Because you are still under the illusion that you’re this little island that doesn’t cause any ripples in other people’s lives which is not true. I don’t know of anybody who’s suicide hasn’t devastated other people.

I want to feel the rush of death, the high of utter nothingness, the fragility of my own mortality. Let it slip through my fingers like sand and when it's gone for good, I'll be none the wiser.

The hours tick by as I lie in bed.Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I can't fight the memories that keep filling my thoughts. I stay curled in the fetal position as each memory plays out. I can't stop them from coming. I can't make them go away. Nothing can distract me. I can't block the memories, so they continue to come.