Top 49 Suicide Attempt Quotes
#1. The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.
Barry Sonnenfeld
#2. I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#3. you look you see only bitterness or despair. If all of these conditions and situations apply to you, I recommend a refreshing suicide attempt.
Jeff VanderMeer
#4. Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core.
Marsha M. Linehan
#5. You are more than the pill.
You are more than the blade.
You are more than the mistake.
You are more than the diagnosis.
You are more than the suicide attempt.
Christopher Lilley
#6. In other words, a gun is twenty-two times more likely to be used in a criminal assault, an accidental death or injury, a suicide attempt, or a homicide than it is for self-defense.67
Michael Shermer
#7. Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.
Tom Verlaine
#8. The day Cami nearly succeeded at her suicide attempt was the worst day of Kaci's life. Cami was the only sister that she had, and she couldn't imagine spending the rest of her life without her.
Valenciya Lyons
#9. It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
Sylvia Plath
#10. I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this? A whimper, a peep? I draw little windowcracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. It looks like I arm-wrestled a rosebush.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#11. Coach's sad smile suggested that after a suicide attempt, a girl's decisions weighed less, like bodies on the moon.
Lauren Kate
#12. [asked if his suicide attempt was a cry for help]
No. I told no one. You only cry for help if you believe that there's help to cry for.
Wentworth Miller
#13. Suicide is a selfish attempt to rid the world of wise minds, solely engineered by Satan
Josephine Akhagbeme
#14. So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#15. 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
#17. Rising from the ashes, I am born again,
powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.
Shannon Perry
#18. One in ten adults will attempt suicide, and one in five will suffer from depression.
Russ Harris
#19. Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
Jodi Picoult
#20. Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Woodrow Wilson
#21. People who try to commit suicide
don't attempt to save them! ... China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.
Mao Zedong
#22. I have experienced deep despair, mental-ill health and attempt of suicide.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#23. Suicide is a permanent answer to a temporary problem." They say, it's not an "answer" in any way. Taking your own life is SE Self Execution, many have said that's a terrible name. I ask should killing yourself sound good?
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#25. Availability is a consistent factor in how most people choose to attempt suicide, said Ms. Barber, regardless of age. People trying to die by suicide tend to choose not the most effective method, but the one most at hand.
Anonymous
#26. Life without knowing your destiny leads to "rat races", depression and frustration, and attempt to commit suicide
Sunday Adelaja
#27. Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete
Kay Redfield Jamison
#28. When you attempt suicide, the counselors try to talk you out of trying it again by asking you about other people, which is good prevention if you care about other people.
Albert Borris
#29. If you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#30. I asked him at the clambake in 2001, at the writers' retreat Xanadu, what he'd done during the war, which he called 'civilization's second unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide,
Kurt Vonnegut
#31. Yes you have returned
And things are as they were
But this you cannot hide,
A part of you has died.
Joyce Rachelle
#32. I graciously survived depression, mental-illness and attempt of suicide.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#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's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire.
Joyce Rachelle
#35. I can see the cracks in society, in people, in this world and I'd rather die before slipping into one of them.
Shayne Colaco
#36. I half-expect to check out, but I'm really there for it. It's not like at the dance, angry and forced. It's terrible in its gentleness and he's just wasting it on me.
Courtney Summers
#37. 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
#38. I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.
Richard Russo
#39. Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.
Warren Farrell
#40. If you want to commit suicide why tell anyone? They'd ruin everything.
Brian Spellman
#41. I know I'm going to kill myself. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. But I know I will.
Anonymous
#42. The writer's life is frightful. I have experienced deep dispair, mental ill and attempt of suicide.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#43. Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.
June Hunt
#44. Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#45. I steered by self as evenly as I could, and it was easier than I thought. My bike and I went shooting off the end, and together we well into the sea that's cold and huge and doesn't care whether living boys launch themselves into it or not.
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
#48. Nothing scares me more than a failed attempt. The last thing I want is to end up in a wheelchair, eating pulverized food and being watched around the clock by some sassy nurse who has a not-so-secret obsession with cheesy reality TV.
Jasmine Warga
#49. I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.
Judy Collins
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