Grief Suicide Quotes

#1. From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

Stanley Hauerwas

#2. Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard ... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.

Victoria Alexander

#3. Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting the French Revolution. Stepping up to the guillotine herself, she ordered the executioner to behead her, thereby committing assisted suicide.

Yasutaka Tsutsui

#4. He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.

Nina LaCour

#5. A star's light still shines even if there's no one to see it, but without someone to remember Jesse, his light will disappear.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#6. You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die ... I just don't want to exist.

Rebecca McNutt

#7. Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.

Alison Bechdel

#8. In the lowest of lows you can learn the highest of highs, and that often when you get to the point of wanting to die, it's because you already have and are truly aching to live.

Jackie Haze

#9. Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

Aberjhani

#10. When a small group of people come together to relive the Salem witch hunts, God cries. For if anything is sorrowful to God, it is evil done in his name. When you find out you were not given the truth, how will you live with yourself?

Shannon L. Alder

#11. I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

Mark Twain

#12. If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

Clifford Odets

#13. Embrace the pain

Jude Gibbs

#14. Well, well, my dear. Are we so brokenhearted as that? Is the loss of that terrible prince really worth your life?

Serena Valentino

#15. Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.

Winifred Holtby

#16. Laine taped the last box shut. That was it, then: All of Gavin's belongings put away; some for charity, some for the dump, some to be saved for a happier 'one day' that Laine felt, right now, was as distant as the stars.

Stephen M. Irwin

#17. Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

Ambrose Bierce

#18. But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to ...

Sanhita Baruah

#19. But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#20. Having difficult times and grief and brokenness, does not mean that life is over. These are just bumps in the road, obstacles to be overcome and made stepping stones into a long successful life.

Teresa St. Frances