Suicide Prevention Quotes

“Some people suffer in silence, pain in the hearts but smiles on their faces.”
― Isha Barlas

“What I’m praying is that you will choose those beautiful possibilities over any self-annihilating alternatives. My whole life on earth has been the weaving of a single powerful spell. The best part of all my magic was loving you.” (as spoken by the character Valerie Hyerman)”
― Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player :

“How might things have been different if he spoke only one sentence? And that sentence could have been “Jude, are you trying to kill yourself?” or “Jude, you need to tell me what’s going on,” or “Jude, why do you do this to yourself?” Any of those would have been acceptable; any of those would have led to a larger conversation that would have been reparative, or at the very least preventative.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“The bird carried me inside his song. It was so beautiful that I couldn’t help myself. I reached out and tried to embrace it, the bird, and when I did, I put my arms around you.”
― Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player :

“Where you worry you may be planting a seed, a large tree has already grown. -Dr. Stacey Freedenthal”
― Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

“You're bigger than the sea your sinking in, Koa Whiley.”
― Katie Beth, Lovely Fellow

“The things that reduce the symptoms of mental illness probably are not the same things that reduce the probability of suicidal behaviors. Unfortunately we don’t know which active ingredients of suicide focused treatments enable them to reduce the probability of suicidal behaviors better than status quo treatments. We can however reasonably conclude that suicide focused treatments do a better job at reducing the probability of suicidal behaviors because they act on something other than the symptoms of mental illness.”
― Craig J Bryan, Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better

“In that deep place she knew that it was all her fault, that evil arose out of the dark shadows of her heart and seeped into the world poisoning everything. She carried the beast inside her heart, the devourer of happiness...
No, no, it's not true, she said silently...God does not want my death, not by my own hand, never by my own hand...It wouldn't help anyone. Wouldn't help, would only hurt. Wouldn't help, would only...”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

“By suicide, yeu can only hurt the people who loves yeu.”
― Sandesh Hukpachongbang

“I'd like to be sitting here five years from now, Marshal, and know you're still in the world."
Teddy looked down at the hand on his knee. Looked up at Cawley.
"I would too," he said softly.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“If you are contemplating ending your life, know this: Your Life Matters!”
― Germany Kent

“IT'S OKAY TO NOT BE OKAY.
It's also okay to ask for help when you need it.”
― Mykisha Mac

“Today the causes of suicide are similarly unknown, but evidence from multiple sources suggests that certain types of treatments and interventions can reduce suicidal behaviors better than status quo practices, which often conceptualizes suicide as a symptom or outcome of mental illness. Consistent with this perspective, status quo practices target a patients diagnosed mental illness based on the assumption that reducing these symptoms or eliminating the psychological or behavioral disorder also will reduce or eliminate the risk of suicide.”
― Craig J Bryan, Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better

“If for example you are diagnosed with depression, then your clinician might prescribe therapy to reduce your depression and or recommend anti-depressant medication. As we have discussed previously though, reducing the symptoms of mental illness does not seem to reduce the probability that someone will make a suicide attempt. Two treatments in particular, dialectical behavior therapy DBT and cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention, CBT-SP, have demonstrated the ability to reduce the probability of suicidal behaviors in multiple studies conducted by multiple research teams. Other treatments that share many of the same characteristics and components as these treatments via attempted suicide.”
― Craig J Bryan, Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better

“I had spent the day before Googling how to kill yourself and how to kill yourself the easiest and how to kill yourself the fastest and when you start to kill yourself do you want to change your mind? but the thing is, when you Google things like that, you won't get answers the way it normally works. You will instead get numbers to hotlines and therapists and articles with lists about why you should stay alive.

So of course I was scared.”
― Kaleena Madruga, Does It Hurt?

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

“My own failed suicide attempt, led me to profession of helping others. Reach out. You are never alone.”
― David Essel, M.S. , O.M. Best-selling author and Author of the new book HELPING AMERICANS HEAL

“[Suicide rates in 20th century Britain] goes way up when town gas first makes its way into British homes and comes plunging down as the changeover to natural gas begins in the late 1960s. In that 10 year window as town gas was being slowly phased out, thousands of deaths were prevented.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking To Strangers: What We Don't Know About Strangers

“Suicide Islands: The higher the island is, the higher its suicide rate appears to be.”
― Steven Magee

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

“Trust that you will get to the other side of the pain. You really will. It won't last forever. It can't. It won't have the energy - it will fizzle out, just like a rain storm. The sun will come out again. Blue skies will replace the grey, stormy ones. Always keep that in mind, especially when you feel like giving up, or that you "just can't" anymore. That is a temporary feeling that, just like the storm itself, "this too shall pass." If you can't think of anything else in a moment of darkness - remember, the true cliche' that "it is usually the darkest just before the dawn," and "This too shall pass." And then just keep putting one foot in front of the other. Keep keepin' on. Hold on. Hold out. Hold in. Just hold if that is all you can do. It's okay. When the bright light returns - and it ALWAYS does - it will all make more sense. The illusions and distortions of the darkness will show their true face for what they were - often mirages and monsters of our own making in the wee hours of the storm. Just remind yourself, again and again - "This too shall pass." And, just like that - it will. And you will be wiser, stronger, braver, and better for it. Like it or not.”
― Connie Kerbs

“Suicide is not an option.”
― Joe Cox Jr., Life Made Simple: Secrets to Wealth & Happiness Hidden in Plain Sight

“she didn't want to die. and she didn't want to live any other life than the one that was hers. The one that could be a messy struggle, but it was her messy struggle. A beautiful messy struggle”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“ඔයා ජීවත් වෙන්නේ මොන සෘතුවේද කියනෙක වැදගත් නෑ.. ඔයාට පුලුවන් ඊලඟ වසන්ත කාලයේදී පැල කරන්න හීන එකතු කරන්න! ජීවිතය අතනෑර ඉන්න”
― Charitha Prawardhi Bandara, Chathuri Damayanthi

“Taking your life closes one chapter, but leaves countless stories unfinished.”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free

“Iғ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ GROW ᴛʜᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴀʙʟᴇ ᴛᴏ GO!”
― Latosha Faulkner

“Stay.

I know the night is heavy,
a weight pressing against your ribs,
the kind of dark that swallows sound,
the kind of silence that feels like drowning.

I know the world has been unkind,
that some days you are nothing
but an open wound,
the wind too sharp,
the light too cruel.

But stay.”
― Avalon Ash, Time With Trees: 1995–2025, A Collected Work

“There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Every suicide forces the question of how we failed to see, to support, to care. And yet society answers with shame, because responsibility scares a society built on denial.”
― Carson Anekeya

“Suicidal crises are temporary states of mind in which pain overwhelms hope.”
― Carson Anekeya