1,990 Quotes About Suicide

Today, I am going to kill myself. Or maybe tomorrow, I don’t know

I miss you,' she said into the air, as if the spirits of every person she'd loved were in the room with her.

She lay there, pale and pasty with a layer of grey smothered over her skin. Her head was slumped against the drawer like a dead flower as her arms hung limp on her sides. Her cheeks had been stained with tears and I wondered whether she really wanted to die.

We didn’t find him for three days because we didn’t realize he was missing. That’s the saddest part of this story. He’d hanged himself from a tree, one of several that grew in a small sliver of land between my parents’ house and the neighbors’, out by a swing set untouched for years. He timbered over like a sapling when my father cut him down, his body gone stiff.

How does a person deal with all the heartache and tragedy that fills their life without becoming insane or committing suicide?

Suicide does not mean there was no killer.

Nine men in ten are would-be suicides.

Early on, if I was alone two or three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged—where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.