Top 100 Quotes About Suicidal
#1. Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide are as rare as carefully planned acts of homicide.
Erwin Stengel
#2. I thought love was supposed to make a person more alive," Eureka said. "Your love is ... like I used to be - suicidal.
Lauren Kate
#3. Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes
Eckhart Tolle
#4. At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.
James Buchan
#5. After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.
Gunter Grass
#6. I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.
Mark Lanegan
#7. In the wasteland of metro Boston, at thirteen, fourteen, his big dream had been of a gun to his own head, putting him out of his misery - a misery that by sophomore year of college was indistinguishable from everybody else's.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#8. I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark ... '
Rodney Dangerfield
#9. Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?
Agatha Christie
#10. If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I'm not suicidal. And I'm a pretty good driver.
Glenn Beck
#11. We all handle loss in our individual ways, grieve in all kinds of ways. We all go through feeling okay sometimes, but other times, we feel so bad we hurt ourselves or those around us.
E. Journey
#12. Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU. [Suicide note. ]
Kurt Cobain
#14. I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
Robert Wyatt
#15. And so what moved him onward and down the office building's stairway was not any sort of foolish hope that he could actually be saved, but competitive fury at the fact that he had been outdone by the suicidal improvisations of this fanatic.
Neal Stephenson
#17. That's what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn't worry - poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow
Anne Sexton
#18. Some might think you suicidal."
"Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass.
Charlaine Harris
#19. I don't think people understand about suicidal thoughts. They act as if everyone who makes an attempt is looking for attention.
Heidi Cullinan
#20. The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the infant, the knowledge and confidence of the young mother, and a voice for those too weak to speak.
Virginia Henderson
#21. Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up ...
Jean Rhys
#22. I'm sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.
Deborah Curtis
#23. Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#25. The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#26. It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.
Wilfrid Laurier
#27. Being suicidal is really tiring. A lot of suicides are so lacking in affect and so lethargic that they aren't able to kill themselves until their mood improves - spring, for that reason, has the highest rate of what people in the business call "completed" suicides.
Charles D'Ambrosio
#28. The encaged and suicidal have a really hard time imagining anyone caring passionately about anything.
David Foster Wallace
#29. The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.
V.S. Pritchett
#30. If that's true why did it jump into the swamp?" Alex asks. "No normal horse would do that. Jump into a lake for a swim maybe, but not a swamp, unless it was a suicidal horse.
L. H. Cosway
#31. 3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.
Roger Ebert
#33. A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you.
Brian Spellman
#34. It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. If they did so, they couldn't be reelected.
Jimmy Carter
#35. DAMN! damn it all down
took one to the chest without even a sound so
WHAT! what are you worth
the things you love or the people you hurt
HEY! it's like deja vu
a suicidal maniac with nothing to lose
so wait, it's the exception to the rule
everyone of us in EXPENDABLE
Shinedown
#37. To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
Johnny Rich
#38. It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#39. Depression never arrives alone in Life. It brings its friends with it despair, self-injury, and suicidal Thoughts.
Unknown
#40. SUICIDAL IDEATION. That would be a good band name, I think.
Ned Vizzini
#41. Those drugs were either going to bring me nirvana or they were going to kill me. I was sure of it. And I was comfortable with it.
Joss Sheldon
#43. At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
Cesare Pavese
#44. If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.
Lorrie Moore
#45. There have been times when I've thought about it - but with my luck it would probably turn out to be only a temporary solution.
Woody Allen
#46. I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal ... And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war - against poverty.
Meles Zenawi
#47. He ended up on his own. I thought, he's got rid of everybody else, he's going to get rid of himself and he did." "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.
Tony Hancock
#48. I was called a 'CD' by a suicidal teenager, who is alive today because I became her 'Chosen Dad,' who loved her. We all have the potential to re-parent ourselves and others.
Bernie Siegel
#49. I have the insecurities of any actress, I suppose of any woman. Even the most beautiful ones feel unhappy. Look at Bardot: she was suicidal. But I like to play with the camera. I like to ham it up.
Chloe Sevigny
#51. People always mean well, but they don't understand that when you're seriously depressed, suicidal ideation can be the only thing that keeps you alive. Just knowing there's an out - even if it's bloody, even if it's permanent - makes the pain almost bearable for one more day.
Terri Cheney
#52. Anyone desperate enough for suicide ... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.
Richard Bach
#53. Suicide is not a choice, it is what is left when everything else fails.
Unknown
#54. I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.
Adolf Hitler
#55. I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Peter Benchley
#57. I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.
Damian Loeb
#58. To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]
Lupe Velez
#59. Revenge is a business of calculation, best served cold. Rescue holds more of sacrifice, suicidal danger, and all manner of other madness that should have me running in the opposite direction.
Mark Lawrence
#60. I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.
Lesley Boone
#61. Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.
Nick Hornby
#62. After I published a paper showing that suicidal poets used pronouns differently from non-suicidal poets, a slightly inebriated poet threatened me with a butter knife at a party in my own home.
James W. Pennebaker
#64. Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.
Marc Maron
#65. I didn't mean to scare you. I'm not suicidal if that's what's freaking you out. I'm not fucked up in the head. I'm not deranged. I'm not suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. I'm just a brother who loved his sister more than life itself, so I get a little intense when I think about her.
Colleen Hoover
#66. Ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out ...
Alfonsina Storni
#67. How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?
Deborah Curtis
#68. I personally don't think about jumping because things can't possibly get worse... To the contrary, I contemplate it because I believe things probably will.
Tyler Knight
#69. Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
Henry David Thoreau
#70. Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?
William Shakespeare
#71. Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.
Emile Durkheim
#72. Trey, I thought that the Znou was beautiful and I wanted to keep it," I say, explaining myself to him. "I wasn't trying to kill myself. If I get suicidal, you'll know 'cuz I'll be dead. The only thing I'm feeling right now is homicidal, so watch your back.
Amy A. Bartol
#73. Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#74. Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long ...
Anne Sexton
#75. Death could be waiting for him, but he wasn't afraid. Whether it be sooner or later, he welcomed the inevitability with open arms.
Craig R. Key
#76. I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit - - - - - - - - - - - and wanted to shoot myself.
Soren Kierkegaard
#77. I hadn't seen Jennifer in a week. Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder.Whoever said that was a damn fool. Absence makes the heart suicidal. Take my heart for example. It hadn't stopped hurling itself against my ribs - at odd times, day or night - for a week.
Penny Reid
#78. The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.
Joyce Carol Oates
#79. The trouble is that people hate coaches, and for good reason. Coach travel is a dismal and humiliating experience. When I take the bus, as I sometimes must, from Oxford to Cambridge, I arrive feeling almost suicidal.
George Monbiot
#80. I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.
Courtney Love
#81. Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.
Frank Herbert
#82. I find, then, I am but a bad anatomist.
Wolfe Tone
#83. 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.
Sue Klebold
#84. I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.
Byron Katie
#85. Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.
J.A. Redmerski
#86. Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like; it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing.
Bryant McGill
#87. Why not risk your life, if you don't want to live anyway? Why not risk your life if you'll never be happy no matter what you do?
Cassandra Clare
#88. Most suicidal teens are different; they're tempted to kill themselves. with me, i know i need to die; i should be killed for the things i've done. but i keep feeling this nudge, this TEMPTATION TO LIVE. and everyday i pray to god that i never lose that temptation.
Jake Vander Ark
#89. I don't like to think because thinking leads me to overthinking and overthinking leads me to depression. Making decisions without thinking is often suicidal; therefore, I force myself to think without overthinking.
Ben Tolosa
#91. Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#92. In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.
Judith Stone
#93. There is no madder nation than Japan ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.
L. Ron Hubbard
#94. An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud researcher would be considered suicidal by many people.
Steven Magee
#95. Kat laughed. 'Who wants to live forever?'
Kish put his hand up. 'For the record, I do.'
Sin scowled at him. 'Then why do you irritate me so often?'
Suicidal tendencies are inherent in my species?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#96. What a dog I got, he found out we look alike, so he killed himself.
Rodney Dangerfield
#97. Maybe she's suicidal? That's why she keeps inviting me to kill her?
Kim Harrington
#98. Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.
Robert Nozick
#99. Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
Yuri Andropov
#100. Wantonness might be sheer desperation, masking a suicidal self-debasement, but it might also represent a joyful, lusty sexuality that indicated, at heart, a vast generosity of spirit.
Kathleen Norris
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