1,990 Quotes About Suicide

Don't commit suicide your thoughts with jealousy and hatred.

En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado.

For so many of us, some of our days are shadowy and murky. The spirit of others’ light and joy seems to be everywhere but within us, while a vast gulf separates what we see apart from ourselves and what lies within us. We know the enemy resides in the frontless battles being waged in our minds and we ask ourselves, “How is it that though we pledge to be uplifted by the spirit of the days, there comes a moment when we buckle and find ourselves in retreat?

I don't want to rot. Rotting takes time.I don't want time.

Fighting The Daily Battle Together Against Suicide, PTSD, TBI And Depression.

Suicide has overtaken car accidents, heart disease and cancer as the biggest killer of British men under the age of 45, and male rates of substance abuse, violence and imprisonment are eye-watering. And yet dysfunctional emotional regulation continues to be aligned with alpha masculinity.

My brother was philosophically impaired, emotionally paralysed and stubborn, but he was not mentally ill. Mental illness suggests some kind of biological maladjustment such as that caused by injury or drug-induced chemical imbalances, whereas my brother, like many male suicides I have known, reacted normally to an abnormal situation. My brother felt he could not show the suffering that revealed him as sensitive; to do so would have threatened his gender status. It was easier for him to die.

Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it.

The sword connoted an honourable way of dying, and an honourable return to the earth, but the rope left the body hanging between heaven and earth and was therefore an unseemly death.