“Taking your own life. Interesting expression - taking it from who? Once it’s over, it’s not you who’ll miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everybody else. Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”— Steven Moffat, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com
“Hurting yourself won’t stop the monsters from appearing under your bed. Killing yourself won’t lessen the pain you feel. Don’t waste your gift. Don’t waste the opportunity to live.”— E.J. Cenita, thoughtcatalog.com
“I think the idea of a 'mental health day' is something completely invented by people who have no clue what it's like to have bad mental health. The idea that your mind can be aired out in twenty-four hours is kind of like saying heart disease can be cured if you eat the right breakfast cereal. Menta…”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.”— G. K. Chesterton, amazon.com
“Sometimes when a person is very, very unhappy, they forget that they'll someday feel better and they just want to end the unhappiness.”— Diane Chamberlain, amazon.com
“It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide D…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“A suicide is not a simple death, bringing peace with it. It haunts; it asks a question.”— May Sarton, amazon.com
“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begi…”— Charles Bukowski, books.google.com
“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“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. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.”— William Styron, amazon.com
“On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide— it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese— the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Come on fella, suicide's stupid; why hurt yourself when you can hurt other people?”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com