Sometimes, words hold the weight of our deepest sorrows and darkest thoughts. Suicidal quotes, often raw and poignant, capture those emotions in a powerful way. They can make the pain feel less isolating, showing that others have felt the same.
In this article, we present some of the most impactful suicidal quotes. These words might speak to your own struggles or help you understand what someone else is feeling. While they are heavy, they also remind us of the shared human experience.
Quotes Reflecting Suicidal Thoughts
“To be, or not to be: that is the question.”
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“I felt the need to be completely numb, to feel nothing. And maybe even die.”
“I don’t want to die. But I want to be dead.”
“I must end it. There is no hope. I will be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally.”
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
“I open every door I can, but all of them are closed.”
“Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.”
“I am not afraid to keep on living, I am not afraid to walk this world alone.”
“It’s better to burn out than to fade away.”
“Sometimes, I feel no matter how hard I try, I’m just not enough.”
“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
“I don’t want to be alone. I want to be left alone.”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
“I was not myself for weeks, yet nobody noticed.”
“I see everything in pieces and fragments. The only thing that makes sense anymore is the thought of ending it all.”
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
“When you have nobody, you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.”
“The longer I go, the more I realize that life is just one huge conflict after another.”
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
“Sometimes, I feel like I’m screaming in a room full of people who can’t hear me.”
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
“Death is the solution to all problems. No man — no problem.”
“No more pain, no more suffering.”
“I’d rather die while I’m living than live while I’m dead.”
“I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won’t.”
“Maybe we all have darkness in us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”
“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren’t in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
“The thought of death is a comfort; the thought of suicide is a reprieve.”
Famous Suicidal Quotes from Literature
“To be, or not to be: that is the question.”
“I am about to do a dreadful thing, and it is for this I have come into the world.”
“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason.”
“And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.”
“I am not afraid of being dead. I am afraid of dying.”
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
“I wandered into a nightmare and called it love. Now the nightmare will end.”
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
“Every man’s got to figure to get beat sometimes.”
“I must end it. There’s no hope. I’m going to die. I shouted out loud: ‘I’ve had enough’.”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?”
“It is not the thought of suicide that terrifies you; it’s the fear of actually going through with it.”
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
“This pain wouldn’t be forever, and nothing in the world could possibly be worth feeling like this.”
“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
“There’s no honor in suffering, only in death.”
“When you are down and feel that you have hit rock bottom, remember that the best advice is to look up.”
“I tear at the wings of angels to sew them back together again.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.”
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
“Sometimes the only way to feel better is to tear everything down and start over.”
“I have buried one heart, and my soul shall follow.”
“Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose.”
Suicidal Quotes from Music and Lyrics
“I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real.”
“Sometimes quiet is violent. I try to fill the void with noise, but it’s just a void.”
“This world is a dark place, no brighter than the grave.”
“I’m not afraid to die anymore, I’m scared of what comes after.”
“I’m falling apart, barely breathing with a broken heart that’s still beating.”
“How can you say your life is empty? So late in the day, why would you stay another second, now your sight got in the way.”
“I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here.”
“What’s the sense in going to hell if you don’t mean it?”
“Caught in the rapture of love, nothing else can compare. When I feel the magic, nothing more to be said.”
“I’m in a room with a bunch of people but I feel so alone.”
“And you’ve been feeling oh so low and keeping it all in. I’m sorry you’re in pain again.”
“Suffocating in my own silence, I cry for help but nobody listens.”
“I’m just a notch in your bedpost, but you’re just a line in a song.”
“Please don’t say you love me, ’cause I might not say it back.”
“Why does my heart ache so much when no one else understands?”
“I’m sorry I don’t see you more. I’m sorry that I can’t be what you need.”
“I wish I could just make you turn around, turn around and see me cry.”
“All we ever do is say goodbye. Why can’t we just escape?”
“This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.”
“Sometimes I feel like giving up, but I just can’t. It isn’t in my blood.”
“Lost in the echo, no one hears my silent screams.”
“I tried so hard and got so far, but it doesn’t even matter.”
“My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies; fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die.”
“Heavy thoughts are seeping in, and I haven’t slept for days.”
“So tired of being here, suppressed by all my childish fears.”
“It’s getting harder to stay awake, and my strength is fading fast.”
“I never thought I’d die alone, I laughed the loudest who’d have known?”
“I’m not the only one staring at the sun, afraid of what you’d find.”
“what’s left for me, a lonely road of hopeless dreams.”
“Dear agony, just let go of me. Suffer slowly, is this the way it’s gotta be?”
“Dreams of war, dreams of liars, dreams of dragon’s fire. And of things that will bite.”
“I put it in the past, yeah I put it in the past, yeah. We be going fast, can’t slow it down.”
“I used to dream of better days, but now I feel trapped in endless nights.”
Quotes about Suicidal Awareness and Prevention
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”
“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
“Take a deep breath and let it go. You are enough. You are loved. You are not alone.”
“Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“If you’re looking for a sign not to kill yourself, this is it.”
“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”
“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.”
“Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.”
“To anyone out there who’s hurting—it’s not a sign of weakness to need help. It’s a sign of strength.”
“When it is darkest, we can see the stars.”
“At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.”
“It is not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.”
“You are not a burden. You have a light within you that can never be dimmed.”
“Suicide doesn’t end the chances of life getting worse, it eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.”
“If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember that trees lose their leaves every year and they still stand tall and wait for better days to come.”
“The best way out is always through.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
“Hold on to this hope: you can get through this, and you are not alone in the fight.”
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
“Storms don’t last forever.”
“Never let a stumble in the road be the end of the journey.”
Raw Emotion in Suicidal Quotes
I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star. – Emery Allen
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. – John Keats
To be or not to be, that is the question. – William Shakespeare
There is a certain kind of darkness that obliterates everything, even the warmth of a thousand suns.
Maybe we all have darkness and light within us, but it’s the choices we make that define who we are. – J.K. Rowling
I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it feels like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anybody else to feel like that. – Robin Williams
The pain I feel is the only thing that reminds me I’m still alive. – My own words
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow. – Leo Christopher
People keep asking me if I’m okay, and the truth is, I’m not. But no one can save me from this darkness but myself. – My own words
These violent delights have violent ends. – William Shakespeare
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes the best way to deal with the pain is to immerse yourself in the numbness of it. – My own words
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is what hell feels like: nothing. – My own words
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. – Chuck Palahniuk
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou
When you’re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you’ve just wandered off the path, that you’ll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. – My own words
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. – Oscar Wilde
We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in. – Ernest Hemingway
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. – Victor Hugo
The pain is there to remind me that I’m still alive. – My own words
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. – Dante Alighieri
I am bent, but not broken. I am scarred, but not disfigured. I am sad, but not hopeless. I am tired, but not lifeless. I am afraid, but not powerless. I am angry, but not bitter. I am depressed, but not giving up. – My own words
And we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. – Christopher Poindexter
Even if we can’t be together I’m glad that you were a part of my life. – My own words
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin
I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being. – Hafiz of Persia
We live as we dream – alone. – Joseph Conrad
Sometimes, you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out. – My own words
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus
The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4 am knows all my secrets. – Poppy Z. Brite
I don’t want to die, I just want the pain to end. – My own words
Suicidal Quotes from Renowned Personalities
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
“I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed.”
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“I am not afraid of death; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to life.”
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.”
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
“To be or not to be, that is the question.”
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
“And I told him, the only way to reduce the pain of life is to love and to risk losing.”
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
“A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.”
“The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it.”
“When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.”
“I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it’s good for me…”
“All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope.”
“I feel as if I am waiting for something that isn’t going to happen.”
“I am so tired, I can’t tell if I am feeling a deep sadness or if I’m just tired.”
“People pontificate, ‘Suicide is selfishness.’ Career churchmen like Ralph Martin preach that ‘one must be a hero to retain the will to love when life gets tough.’ What the church never gets is that it takes enormous courage to die, just as it takes enormous courage to live.”
“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
“Everything, all at once. Nothing, one at a time.”
“The world is an inherently unfair place but in this moment I am not a victim, not of anything – not even of being.”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
“And when I breathed in my last breath, I remembered the first – and it was beautiful.”
“She was a wildfire and I was the darkness snuffing out her light.”
“Only in the dying do we learn to live, and only in misery do we understand bliss.”
The Power of Language in Suicidal Quotes
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
“I am not afraid of being dead. I’m just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.”
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
“Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.'”
“The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.”
“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
“And when I gazed into your eyes, I saw the depths of an ocean in which I quietly wished to drown.”
“Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down.”
“I am constantly trying to escape from this darkness, but the harder I try, the deeper I sink.”
“Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“I must end it. There is no hope. I will be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally.”
“They would not find me changed from him they knew—only more sure of all I thought was true.”
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
“This is where the terror of being alone meets the comfort of isolation.”
“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.”
“I show up, but I’m an empty shell, and the worst part is I don’t think anyone notices.”
“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
“I’ve been losing sleep for a while now and it’s all your fault.”
“The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is press coverage.”
“It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.”
“The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.”
“I feel like a prisoner in my own mind, fighting battles I may never win.”
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
“Words left unspoken make the loudest noise.”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
“These cuts are a different kind of wound. They bleed thoughts instead of blood.”
Compassion and Understanding in Suicidal Quotes
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“It’s not always the tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake.”
“I’m living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.”
“Suicide doesn’t end the chances of life getting worse, it eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.”
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
“One day you’ll wake up and realize the light is still there, even if it’s faint.”
“Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.”
“You don’t understand depression until you can’t stand your own presence in an empty room.”
“The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow.”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
“The stars are brighter because you exist.”
“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.”
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.”
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”
“What if the deep, dark depressive fog finally lifts, and you miss a beautiful moment?”
“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.”
“When it is darkest, we can see the stars.”
“The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.”
“Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.”
“Better to be a strong man with a weak point than to be a weak man without a strong point.”
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about.”
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
“When you’re down and lost and you need a helping hand, just take a breath and let it out.”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
Last Words
Reflecting on these powerful quotes can be a reminder that even in our darkest moments, we are not alone. The words of others who have faced similar struggles can offer a sense of connection and understanding. It’s important to acknowledge these feelings and to reach out for help when needed.
While these quotes may bring comfort or resonance, it’s crucial to address the root of these emotions. Talking to a professional or confiding in a trusted friend can provide support and guidance. Remember, there is hope and there are resources available to help you through tough times.
