Suicidal Thoughts Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old suicidal thoughts quotes, suicidal thoughts sayings, and suicidal thoughts proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Amidst the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man. Pliny the Elder
O! that this too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew; / Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd / His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! William Shakespeare
The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a night. Friedrich Nietzsche
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. Albert Camus
The question is whether it is the way out, or the way in. R. W. Emerson
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects. Stephen Leacock
Suicide... is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets. Wilfrid Sheed
Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has gotten so expensive. Drugs are too chancy. You might mistake the dosage and just have a good time. P. J. O'Rourke
Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." Bill Maher
He is a little man in every way, for whom there are many reasons for departing from life. Epicurus
In spite of all one hears to the contrary, the act of suicide requires a certain courage of conviction or despair of which few persons are capable. Pearl S. Buck
A man's dying is more the survivor's affair than his own. Thomas Mann
We cannot blot out one page of our lives, but we can throw the book in the fire. George Sand
I am the ghost of an infamous suicide, / My own blue razor rusting in my throat. / O pardon the one who knocks for pardon at / Your gate, father—your hound-bitch, daughter, friend. / It was my love that did us both to death. Sylvia Plath
The strangest whim has seized me... / After all / I think I will not hang myself today. G. K. Chesterton
Without the possibility of suicide, I would have killed myself long ago. E. M. Cioran
The love boat has crashed against the everyday. You and I, we are quits, and there is no point in listing mutual pains, sorrows, and hurts. Vladimir Mayakovsky
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. Charles Frohman
A man who commits suicide is like a man who longs for a gate to be opened and who cuts his throat before he reaches the gate. Dylan Thomas
Compulsion is a mirror in which he who looks for long will see his inner self endeavoring to commit suicide. Kahlil Gibran
Should one - ought we to commit suicide? Yes, say they, when there is no hope; but who - when and how can we be without hope in this miserable scene, where the natural or sudden death of a single individual changes, in an instant, the whole aspect of affairs? Napoleon Bonaparte