Suicide Attempt Quotes

Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

The fact of the attempted suicide by Augusto Martinez was explained in a concise and exact form by our government in a communique. There is absolutely nothing else to add.

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.

One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.

To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)

I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle , my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger.

Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front of your co-workers and end the misery." I don't know how many of you ever tried to jump off of a Pizza Hut, but you'll just get a sprained ankle out of the deal. Then you'll have to go back inside, and serve crazy bread.

Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.

One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and closets for the night. In the dark she had made a loop and tried to pull it tight around her throat. But always just as the air stopped coming and she felt the rushing grow louder in her ears, her hands would slacken and let go, and she would lie there panting for breath, cursing the dumb instinct in her body that fought to go on living

Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump.

I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

I don't think I was ever...trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far...I wouldn't care.

I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what my psychiatrist had been saying for years. The choice is not between a drug that has side effects or not, life is not ideal. Yes, your drug has side effects and yes if you don't take it you're going to die.

If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke.