"The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not."
Read quote
33 likes
Suicide quotes
Suicide
1.6K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Suicide
Browse quotes that often appear alongside suicide — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Suicide quotes (page 4 of 79)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy."
Read quote
33 likes
"The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born."
Read quote
33 likes
"The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn."
Read quote
33 likes
"Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide."
Read quote
32 likes
"I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol."
Read quote
31 likes
"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide."
Read quote
30 likes
"I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace."
Read quote
30 likes
"Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured."
Read quote
29 likes
"I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn’t let me."
Read quote
29 likes
"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair."
Read quote
29 likes
"We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."
Read quote
29 likes
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
Read quote
29 likes
"Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide."
Read quote
29 likes
"I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road."
Read quote
28 likes
"The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to."
Read quote
28 likes
"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."
Read quote
27 likes
"...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
Read quote
27 likes
"There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain."
Read quote
27 likes
"Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it."
Read quote
27 likes