Mental Illness Suicide Quotes

#1. Those that have lost their lives to suicide were good people, who were in deep, deep pain. Keep speaking about mental illness and keep it out of the darkness.

Mariel Hemingway

#2. He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to be over.

Jasmine Warga

#3. If you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#4. It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.

Osamu Dazai

#5. The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun.

Marion G. Harmon

#6. When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, Buffeted but not broken.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#7. I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.
I want money. Unless I have it ...
In my sleep, a natural death!

Osamu Dazai

#8. PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#9. The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness - to the individual himself and to others - and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

Kay Redfield Jamison

#10. He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

Osamu Dazai

#11. Rising from the ashes, I am born again,
powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.

Shannon Perry

#12. I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#13. I used to think it utterly normal that I suffered from "suicidal ideation" on an almost daily basis. In other words, for as long as I can remember, the thought of ending my life came to me frequently and obsessively.

Stephen Fry

#14. The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.

William Styron

#15. Being depressed and suicidal doesn't mean wanting to kill yourself every moment of every day. It may be a fixed obsession, but sometimes it gets relegated to the back of your head. Rather, it means the world takes on the very cut and dry, black and white, unilateral aspect of a flowchart.

Nenia Campbell

#16. The Parents, as my mother and father refer to Mr. Finch and Mrs. Finch, are insisting it was an accident, which, I guess, means we're free to mourn him out in the open in a normal, healthy, unstigmatised way. No need to be ashamed or embarrassed since suicide isn't involved.

Jennifer Niven

#17. My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.

Shannon Perry

#18. Guidance counselors always love to say, 'Just think positively,' but that's impossible when you have this thing inside of you, strangling every ounce of happiness you can muster. My body is an efficient happy-though-killing machine.

Jasmine Warga

#19. Waking up breaks my heart.
Getting dressed breaks my arms.
Joining the crowd breaks my legs.
Letting someone in ... does me in.

Casey Renee Kiser

#20. I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.
I don't want it to win.

Jasmine Warga

#21. Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like; it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing.

Bryant McGill

#22. As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#23. What to do with life? Get out of bed, Derek. That's what you do. You get out of bed, and you get yourself a cup of fucking coffee. That's all you can do.

Allie Burke

#24. But even then I knew it wasn't me that saved her life. It wasn't about me. I was just there while she was maybe going to die and maybe not, and then she just didn't.

Lucy Corin

#25. I graciously survived depression, mental-illness and attempt of suicide.

Lailah Gifty Akita