1,990 Quotes About Suicide

Fear accompanies the possibility of death. Calm shepherds its certainty.–Captain Ka D’Argo, Farscape

President Trump may have committed political suicide with COVID-19.

Did you know that our region has the world’s highest rate of female self-immolation? There. We hold one international record. Despite our long tradition of having female rulers and governors, we’ve become a nation of burned women.

We must love ourselves and others deeply. Contrary to what we've been taught, stigmatizing our mothers, brothers, and cousins will not protect our houses from ruin.

After the crying and the throwing up and the scrolling through his entire contacts list and realizing there wasn't a single person he could tell, and the drafting and then deleting five separate long graphic messages to all his contacts, and the deciding to kill himself, and the deciding not to, Fill went out for a walk.

The idea of suicide flitted across my brain; but it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal.

Artists need each other to stay alive.

There are nights that the most ingenious torturers could not have invented. We emerge from them in pieces, stupid, dazed, with neither memories nor anticipations, and without even knowing who we are. And it is then that the day seems useless, light pernicious, even more oppressive than the darkness.

The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control.