Best suicide & grief Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.”

Form Left Grief Behinds Moral Perspective Shame Suicide Guilt Wounds Abandon Manipulation Metaphysical Left Behind Committing Suicide

Book:The Hauerwas Reader

Source: The Hauerwas Reader

“Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.”

Knows Grief Youth Suicide Remedy

Book:Pavements at Anderby: tales of

Source: Pavements at Anderby: tales of

“Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.”

Said Ends Matter Feelings Would Be Life Is Grief Fool Concerned Suicide Bitter Why Not Succession

Author:Stendhal

“I'm not ... pumped about being alive. But I don't think about suicide ever. I have a kid. I think that's just an automatic shut-off of that idea. In fact, I just instantly went into the necessities of parenting, and I think it's been very good for grief. Because it's a reality check, I guess. I have very real tasks that need immediate attention all the time.”

Thinking Real Reality Kids Grief Attention Suicide Very Good

Author:Phil Elvrum

“I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.”

Heart Left Term Grief Behinds Argument Suicide Release Awful Suicidal Left Behind Famine

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.”

Death Grief Tears Suicide Funeral Expenditures Enriching Pageant Undertaker

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard.... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Humans Moments Speak Grief Steps Heard Suicide Oneself Spheres First Steps Unspeakable

Author:Victoria Alexander

“If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.”

Ifs Knows Soul Sleep Grief Sad Died Suicide Pills Bleeding Sleeping Pills

Author:Clifford Odets

“What sorts of things do you google when your favorite person in the world is determined to leave it?”

Love Grief Sorrow Suicide Sisters

Book:All My Puny Sorrows

Source: All My Puny Sorrows

“Sometimes I almost go hours without crying, Then I feel if I don’t, I’ll go insane. It can seem her whole life was her dying. She tried so hard, then she was tired of trying; Now I’m tired, too, of trying to explain. Sometimes I almost go hours without crying.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Suicide Mourning

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Time along with effort, the intention to heal, and the conscious action to mourn will gradually bring peace instead of pain.”

Love Death Hope Loss Grief Healing Dying Suicide Sudden Loss

Author:Chelsea Hanson

“So that's it. That's the big secret. I tried to kill myself on New Year's eve. Just like Sadie did last night. Only she really did it. I don't know all the detatils, just the basics. She took a bunch of pills. I don't know what they were or where she got them. I'd like to think they were Wonder Drug. Then at least she could have gone thinking she was flying.”

Source: Suicide Notes

“Despair, grief, and depression are not things that people can simply stop, any more than someone can will an end to a toothache or the pain of withdrawal. Acutely suicidal people have lost all sense of having power over their pain. To tell them to magically acquire will power is like asking a crippled person to race against a champion. It does not help them do the thing in question; it just makes them feel worse.”

Grief Despair Depression Suicide Will Power

Book:Out of the Nightmare: Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain

Source: Out of the Nightmare: Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain

“The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale green sheet covered his inert body but not his head, which lay (eyes closed, mouth set in a tense and terrible grimace) unmoving. Gianluca. Barely able to see, barely able to stand - my knees kept buckling – and breathing so quietly I thought that I, too, might die; that out of shock, I would just drift away, the shell of my body cracking open. No longer anchored by my brother’s love, I would be reabsorbed by sky. Gianluca. If there was never another sound in the world, I would understand – yes, that would be appropriate, it would be fitting. This was the antithesis of music, the antithesis of noise. My brother’s death seemed to demand silence of all the world. Gianluca.”

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Book:The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

“Grief is visceral, not reasonable: the howling at the center of grief is raw and real. It is love in its most wild form.”

Death Loss Grief Sadness Suicide Trauma Witness Child Loss

Book:It's OK That You're Not OK

Source: It's OK That You're Not OK

“When someone you love dies, you don't just lose them in the present or in the past. You lose the future you should have had, and might have had, with them. They are missing from all the life that was to be.”

Death Loss Grief Sadness Suicide Trauma Witness Child Loss

Book:It's OK That You're Not OK

Source: It's OK That You're Not OK

“If you can't tell your story to another human, find another way: journal, paint, make your grief into a graphic novel with a very dark storyline. Or go out to the woods and tell the trees. It is an immense relief to be able to tell your story without someone trying to fix it. The trees will not ask, "How are you really?" and the wind doesn't care if you cry.”

Death Loss Grief Sadness Suicide Trauma Witness Child Loss

Book:It's OK That You're Not OK

Source: It's OK That You're Not OK

“Things like "Everything happens for a reason" and "You'll become a stronger/kinder/more compassionate person because of this" brings out rage in grieving people. Nothing makes a person angrier than when they know they're being insulted but can't figure out how. It's not just erasing your current pain that makes words of comfort land so badly. There's a hidden subtext in those statements about becoming a better, kinder, and more compassionate because of your loss, that often-used phrase about knowing what's "truly important in life" now that you've learned how quickly life can change. The unspoken second half of the sentence in this case says you needed this somehow. It says that you weren't aware of what was important in life before this happened. It says that you weren't kind, compassionate, or aware enough in your life before this happened. That you needed this experience in order to develop or grow, that you needed this lesson in order to step into your "true path" in life. As though loss and hardship were the only ways to grow as a human being. As though pain were the only doorway to a better, deeper life, the only way to be truly compassionate and kind.”

Death Loss Grief Sadness Suicide Trauma Witness Child Loss

Book:It's OK That You're Not OK

Source: It's OK That You're Not OK

“What we need to remember -- as a working practice -- is to honor all griefs. Honor all losses, small and not small. Life changing and moment changing. And then, not to compare them. That all people experience pain is not medicine for anything.”

Death Loss Grief Sadness Suicide Trauma Witness Child Loss

Book:It's OK That You're Not OK

Source: It's OK That You're Not OK

“Grief is not an enlightenment program for a select few. No one needs intense, life-changing, loss to become whoever they are "meant" to be. The universe is not causal in that way: you need to become something, so life gives you this horrible experience in order to make it happen.”

Death Loss Grief Sadness Suicide Trauma Witness Child Loss

Book:It's OK That You're Not OK

Source: It's OK That You're Not OK

“All those encouragements from others about having so much to live for, that there's still goodness to come in your life --- they feel irrelevant. They kind of are irrelevant. You can't cheerlead yourself out of the depths of grief.”

Death Loss Grief Sadness Suicide Trauma Witness Child Loss

Book:It's OK That You're Not OK

Source: It's OK That You're Not OK

“By simply stating the truth, we open conversations about grief, which are really conversations about love. We start to love one another better. We begin to overhaul the falsely redemptive storyline that has us, as a culture and as individuals, insist that there's a happy ending everywhere if only we look hard enough. We stop blaming each other for our pain, and instead, work together to change what can be changed, and withstand what can't be fixed. We get more comfortable with hearing the truth, even when the truth breaks our hearts.”

Death Loss Grief Sadness Suicide Trauma Witness Tags Child Loss

Book:It's OK That You're Not OK

Source: It's OK That You're Not OK

“Selbstmord ist ein Erbstück das sich an mir beteiligt”

Death Fear Grief Horror Suicide Mental Health Trauma

Book:Zerreißprobe Menschwerdung: dringende Gedichte

Source: Zerreißprobe Menschwerdung: dringende Gedichte

“Some days are sweetened with pure, but fleeting joy. Just keep keeping on. Some days consist of a kind of sorrow that tries to break you. Just keep keeping on. Some days are filled with bright, warm light that clearly shows the path to follow. Just keep keeping on. Some days are filled with calm and peace. Just keep keeping on. Some days are filled with a violent commotion that does its best to disrupt our innermost harmony. Just keep keeping on. Some days we must just take a rest, until we can once again, keep keeping on. Some days are filled with hope and faith and the recognition of a journey we wouldn't trade for anything. And so we keep keeping on.”

Inspiration Joy Faith Hope Grief Journey Overcoming Suicide Don T Give Up Keep Keeping On

Author:Connie Kerbs

“But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to...”

Home Left Grief Loneliness Sad Solitude Bird Lonely Suicide Wings Alone Melancholy Escape Survive Fly Leave Her She Bereft Places Of The World

Author:Sanhita Baruah

“I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?" Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, "Yes, I'm afraid of spiders." "Were you always?" "What are you, a psychiatrist?" Pritam took a breath. He could feel Laine's eyes on him, appraising his line of questioning. "Is it possible that the trauma of losing your best friend as a child and the trauma of losing your wife as an adult and the trauma of seeing Laine's husband take his life in front of you just recently..." Pritam shrugged and raised his palms, "You see where I'm going?" Nicholas looked at Laine. She watched back. Her gray eyes missed nothing. "Sure," agreed Nicholas, standing. "And my sister's nuts, too, and we both like imagining that little white dogs are big nasty spiders because our daddy died and we never got enough cuddles." "Your father died?" asked Laine. "When?" "Who cares?" Pritam sighed. "You must see this from our point of - " "I'd love to!" snapped Nicholas. "I'd love to see it from your point of view, because mine is not that much fun! It's insane! It's insane that I see dead people, Pritam! It's insane that this," he flicked out the sardonyx necklace,"stopped me from kidnapping a little girl!" "That's what you believe," Pritam said carefully. "That's what I fucking believe!" Nicholas stabbed his finger through the air at the dead bird talisman lying slack on the coffee table.”

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Book:The Dead Path

Source: The Dead Path

“Going with the flow of life is like catching a train at the station. You need to be at the right station at the right time and board the right train to get you where you need to be. If you go earlier than you’re supposed to, you can catch the wrong train. You don’t want to do that because it will just take you further away from me than you feel you already are. You need to go through the growing pains of grief so that you and I can fulfill our destiny and be in the right place at the right time to be reunited again.”

Hope Grief Healing Destiny Suicide Timing Suicidal Bereavement Don T Give Up Temporary Condition

Book:Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief

Source: Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief

“Embrace the pain”

Hope Grief Abuse Suicide Redemption Rape Bereavement Child Loss Pregnancy Loss Bareness

Book:Gifts from the Ashes: Hope in Jesus for Bereaved Parents

Source: Gifts from the Ashes: Hope in Jesus for Bereaved Parents

“People or stars Regards me sadly, I disappoint them.”

Death Grief Sad Depression Suicide

Book:Sylvia Plath - Selected Poems (Faber Poetry) by Sylvia Plath (3-Mar-2003) Paperback

Source: Sylvia Plath - Selected Poems (Faber Poetry) by Sylvia Plath (3-Mar-2003) Paperback

“THE ONES WE LOSE The ones we lose Take more than themselves with them As they leave, they steal parts of you That you will never grow back Like a tree pruned too much Your blossoms are fruitless But you will heal No matter if it was peaceful, Senseless, Violent Show me your hands When you leave I want to see the parts of me that also disappear”

Love Death Loss Grief Poem Suicide Death And Dying Death Of A Loved One Death Quotes Trishanorth

Book:To Those Who Die Awake

Source: To Those Who Die Awake

“I am sitting next to a middle-aged Midwestern blonde from Shakopee, Minnesota. She is unremarkable; from the outside she looks less unkempt than some, a veneer of solidity that makes me wonder what she's doing here. Then she tells her story. Her thirty-year-old daughter, her best friend as she described her, had planned a big fiftieth birthday party for her. She had set up catering, had had a cake delivered to her mom's house. A few hours before the party, she had been with her mom setting up tables and making a playlist, and then left to go to her apartment to change clothes. She said to her mother what she said every time they parted, "I love loving you," and walked out the door. She never showed up for the party. She had gone home and hanged herself. This mother, that veneer I had misrecognized, was a husk, all that was left of a body destroyed by the unknown becoming known. "What had I missed?" she asked. What was lurking inside the body of her daughter that day? What was underneath the party planning and the love of loving her mother? What could that young woman not bear to know, not bear to feel?”

Love Loss Grief Family Suicide Invisible Mental Illness Invisible Illness Invisible Self

Book:Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

Source: Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

“Laine taped the last box shut. That was it, then: All of Gavin's belongings put away; some for charity, some for the dump, some to be saved for a happier 'one day' that Laine felt, right now, was as distant as the stars.”

Loss Grief Letting Go Suicide Material Possessions Packing Up Giving Away

Book:The Dead Path

Source: The Dead Path

“Dying / Is an art, like everything else," wrote Plath, whose lifelong flirtation with death went too far one fateful February morning. And art is nothing if not subjective. In the same vein, when I think of Virginia Woolf, it is not merely as a helpless participant in the morbid fascination that has sprung up around these two writers--but of the windows of time of their deaths. The time it took Woolf to fill her pockets with rocks. The selection of those rocks. When does a suicide begin? When do we start counting? At the riverbank or in the river? In the kitchen the night before or the next morning? Rilke warned the "we must learn to die: That is all of life. To prepare gradually the masterpiece of a proud and supreme death, of a death where chance plays no part, of a well-made, beatific, and enthusiastic death of the kind the saints knew to shape." That's nice. But it's hard to throw something like that together at the last minute. What gruesome work suicide makes of grief! Sometimes I conflate blame and action, sometimes I separate them as if in a moral centrifuge, sometimes I think it doesn't matter either way.”

Death Loss Grief Suicide

Book:Grief Is for People

Source: Grief Is for People

“Maybe she liked Van Gogh's work for other reasons, too. Maybe she liked how he created things while never knowing his own value. Maybe she liked the thought of being imperfect, but being loved anyway. Maybe she felt some sort of kinship with a man who, for his entire adult life, warred with his own monsters in his head. Vincent Van Gogh's last words were, after his brother comforted him by telling him he would get better from the self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, "La tristesse durera toujours", "the sadness will last forever".”

Grief Suicide

Book:The Seven Year Slip

Source: The Seven Year Slip

“For me, being a survivor has made me a reluctant participant/observer in my own inner struggle between wanting that to be the most important fact of my life and wanting it to be the least important.”

Loss Grief Suicide Survivor

Book:No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One

Source: No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One

“my mother’s grief is something that lives in the nature of all things”

Love Death Grief Depression Suicide Trauma

Book:coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry

Source: coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry

“That night, you turn in your bed to watch the moon rise, and once more see what a small coin it is against the darkness, and how everything else is a mystery, and you know nothing at all except the moonlight is beautiful – white rivers running together along the bare boughs of the trees – and somewhere, for someone, life is becoming moment by moment unbearable. (From Beaver Moon – The Suicide of a Friend, in Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver)”

Grief Depression Suicide

Book:Twelve Moons

Source: Twelve Moons

“we built our own worlds for as long as they lasted”

Love Life Death Poetry Grief Childhood Suicide Mental Health Memory Trauma

Book:symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

Source: symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

“your death is very much alive in my body”

Love Life Poetry Grief Suicide Mental Health Trauma

Book:symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

Source: symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

“fire may have burned the book but not the story incandescent”

Love Life Poetry Grief Suicide Mental Health Trauma

Book:symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

Source: symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

“The mother who abandoned her child or took her own life leaves a daughter with the most direct access route to anger--she left me--but even the mother who falls ill and dies can be an object of blame.”

Death Grief Anger Blame Suicide Abandonment Motherless Daughters Suicide Survivors

Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

“you loved without words and you left without words”

Love Life Death Poetry Grief Suicide Mental Health Memory

Book:symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

Source: symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

“I'm wearing your clothes as if they were you.”

Love Life Death Poetry Grief Suicide Mental Health

Book:symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

Source: symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

“you knew that you were capable of dying when all you really wanted was to live.”

Love Life Poetry Grief Suicide Mental Health Trauma

Book:symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

Source: symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

“I lay wounded in the darkness after you.”

Love Life Poetry Grief Suicide Mental Health Trauma

Book:symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

Source: symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

“I wish I could have been the weight between you and the vastest amount of air.”

Love Life Death Poetry Grief Suicide Mental Health Trauma

Book:symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

Source: symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

“how could this act of freeing yourself feel so stuck in my body”

Love Life Death Poetry Grief Suicide Mental Health Trauma

Book:symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

Source: symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief

“Grief, I learned, doesn’t care how hard you attempt to understand her. She doesn’t care if you are already depressed or suffer from suicidal ideation. She doesn’t wait for you to be ready, and the longer you defer her presence, the heavier her weight becomes.”

Death Loss Grief Depression Suicide Mental Health Divorce Grieving Mourning Where The River Flows

Book:Where the River Flows: A memoir of loss, love & life with an Eating Disorder

Source: Where the River Flows: A memoir of loss, love & life with an Eating Disorder

“you don't lose a person like a set of keys because you don't find them again and you can still get to where you're going.”

Life Wisdom Death Poetry Loss Grief Poem Suicide Grieving

Book:Lord of the Butterflies

Source: Lord of the Butterflies

“Some of the most challenging work a suicide survivor can do is to pray. To pray fully, survivors must bring all of themselves to the prayer: their anger, disappointment, fears, insecurities, and why's. I bring all of me into an encounter with God, aware that nothing in the human experience, or the human response to the ambushes of life, is alien to God.”

Prayer Grief Suicide Grieving

Author:Harold Ivan Smith

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