1,990 Quotes About Suicide

...fighting to live is hard. It’s supposed to be. Giving up is the easy part.

Suicidal thought is a symptom of illness, of something else gone wrong. Most suicides are not impulsive, spur -of-the-moment decisions at all. Instead, most of these deaths are the result of a person losing a long and painful battle against their own impaired thinking. A suicidal person is someone who is unable to tolerate their suffering any longer. Even if she does not really want to die, she knows death will end that suffering once and for all.

Life is a mind-body-world, a trilateral compromise. When world decides to end it, it’s a clamaity. When body decides to end it, its natural death. When mind decides to end it, its suicide. And we call it suicide because mind is the self; the most conscious among the three.

If one can kill himself, the part that kills the killable has to be immortal. Either suicide makes not much sense or Man doesn’t die at all.

Happiness makes us think that life is worth living, whereas depression makes us think that life is worth leaving.

Whenever I tried to commit suicide, I didn’t try to kill myself. I tried to bury someone I no longer knew. Someone without a smile, hope, dreams, purpose, dignity, or lust for life.

Attempting suicide is one of the most intense, terrifying, and traumatic things one can ever experience in their lifetime. No human is designed to kill himself/herself.

So, for those experiencing suicidal thoughts, there is absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about, be ashamed of, or feel guilty about. Please reach out. Getting help does not make you a coward, low-life, attention-seeking, inferior, weak, unworthy, or any other derogatory terms people may spew at you. Being courageous enough to seek help takes superhuman strength. You deserve to feel better.

Some of those who have killed themselves would readily kill themselves again if they could.