1,990 Quotes About Suicide

  • Author Eden Tijerina
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    By and by, an umber horizon begins to glow, displacing the moonlight. I close my eyes facing it. I see your crashing instruments, your secular declarations, every shameful nadir somehow lower than the one before. All of the lostness and madness braided together, a cord inexorably straining towards the night you silenced the whole world.

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  • Author Susan Stefan
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    The lesson that U.S. social policies and laws teach is crystal clear: if you are feeling like you wish you were dead, you’d better keep quiet about it. That is, unless you want a hospital bed, or to get out of a jail cell, or to get your loved ones to take your pain seriously, in which case you should say you are suicidal whether it’s true or not.

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  • Author Anna Mehler Paperny
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    Suicidality and curiosity are anathema to each other: You can’t want to know things if you want to die. As long as I had questions I had reason to live, and when I was overwhelmed by a desire for death I could not begin to do the curious work that made life worth living.

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