Suicides Quotes

“Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“Those who take their own lives, especially when the quality of those lives is much less bad than those of the cancer patient or the concentration camp prisoner, fly in the face of the normal will to live. They are seen as abnormal, not merely in the statistical sense of being unusual, but of being defective, either morally or psychologically.”
― David Benatar, The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death: New Essays

“The pain I feel from the razor blade doesn’t even come close to what I’m feeling inside so it’s useless because the equation is messed up: because razor blade pain should be equal to or greater than the heartache, that’s just CUTTING 101. And if it’s not—well you’re fucked, my friend. It was nice knowing you, but you know what time it is?
It’s time to let to let the darkness in.
Quid pro quo and all that.
It’s time to find something more agonizing than the touch of the blade.”
― Kady Hunt, Seven Cuts

“Although they will miss his presence if he dies, his condition is too burdensome to require his continued presence. In such circumstances, what is selfish is the insistence that the prospective suicide remain alive, not that he seek his own demise. The argument about selfishness can backfire in another way. Just as it is sometimes the case that those who kill themselves have accorded insufficient weight to the interests of others, so it is sometimes the case that those who do not kill themselves make this error. Consistent with what I have already said, I do not think that the interests of others are decisive. Nevertheless, there are situations in which a person's interest in continued life is negligible, because he will die soon anyway, and the quality of his life is appalling. If seeing out his days, rather than taking his own life earlier, would spell financial ruin for his family (because of the costs of his medical care), then it may well be unduly selfish not to take one's own life.”
― David Benatar, The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death: New Essays

“Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Not all suicides are suicides, some are murders!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Suicide solves midlife crises.”
― Brian Spellman, Cartoonist's Book Camp

“To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Living was a tug of war, and dying was a piece of cake.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“The failure of the Disability and Workers Compensation systems can be associated with a massive number of suicides.”
― Steven Magee

“Suicide isn't always mean to kill yourself. Sometimes, it means to ruin yourself.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“All Cambridge suicides were brilliant. But about this one there could be little doubt. Sir Ronald’s death would probably raise him to the status of genius.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“The majority of hurricane Ian deaths were drownings, vehicle crashes, medical emergencies, falls and suicides.”
― Steven Magee

“Causes of suicide are cheaper than life.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Some people die too quick, and too young because they couldn't wait.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia