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Killing Myself Quotes

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.
- Steven Wright

I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this,
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
- William Shakespeare

I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?
- Voltaire

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.
- David Levithan

At times it felt like I was killing myself. And yet the only thing I could recall at that moment was how much fun it had been, and how wonderful it was to do this for a living.
- Michael J Collins

The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.
- Sebastian Faulks

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.
- Craig Ferguson

Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
- Ellen Hopkins

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
- Russell Hoban

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.
- Jerry Kramer

Dr. Kennedy talked me out of killing myself--for now--without saying a single words or even knowing what was going on. Which, I've decided, is the mark of a totally kick-ass therapist.
- Barry Lyga

As soon as he was gone I blew my breath out and leaned back against the wall. Awkward. First the cop who'd arrested me, then the paramedic who'd kept me from accidentally killing myself. I didn't even want to think what a third thing might be.
- Diana Rowland

I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers in preventing suicide. It's a very good thing to decrease suicide but we should care at least a little if I'm not killing myself because I feel better or if I just can't remember where I put the damn gun.
- Mark Vonnegut

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