Discussion Favorite quotes associated with suicide (or pessimism/depression)

[Float On Okay]

"I'm fucked up, but I ain't as fucked up as you. You just can't get right, I think your heart made of bullet proof. Should've killed yo' ass a long time ago, you should've feeled that black revolver blast a long time ago and if those mirrors could talk it'd say, 'You gotta go' and if I told your secrets the world'll know money can't stop a suicidal weakness"
- Kendrick Lamar, "u" song (2015)



"The bible or the rifle, goodnight folks"
- A$AP Rocky, "Phoenix" song (2013)



"What saved me was the idea of suicide. Without the idea of suicide, I would've surely killed myself. What allowed me to keep on living was knowing I had this option, always in sight... To me, suicide is linked with the idea of freedom."
- Emil Cioran, Interview



Those are three right off the bat. I'll post more.

 

[SipSop]

"So if I succeed in my effort at suicide tonight then this will sure be the last I'll ever say or write on this earth. The choice is mine and I fully realize just what I am doing. I would like to have it known just why I do this. I had no choice about coming into this world and nearly all of my 38 years in it I have had very little to say or do about how I should live my life. People have driven me into doing everything I have ever done. Now the time has come when I refuse to be driven any further. Tonight I die and tomorrow I go to the grave farther than that no man can drive me I am sure glad to leave this lousy world and the lousier people that live in it. But of all the lousy people in this world I believe that I am the lousiest of them all. Today I am dirty but tomorrow I'll be just DIRT."

- Carl Panzram​

 

[willitpass]

"let me just give up, let me just let go, if this isn't good for me well i don't wanna know. let me just stop trying, let me just stop fighting, i don't want your good advice or reasons why i'm alright" -you don't know what it's like by katelyn tarver

 

[RayoSinSol]

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

[Nuclear Gandhi]

I really like the concept of death poems. I am not a fan of poetry generally, but something about retrospective summarizing of life in few words gets to me. Here is my favourite one, it's quite famous poem by Misao Fujimura. He wrote it on the tree before going by suicide. Here is English translation:

Thoughts on the precipice

How immense the universe is!
How eternal history is!
I wanted to measure the immensity with this puny five-foot body.
What authority has Horatio's philosophy?
The true nature of the whole creation.
Is in one word – "unfathomable".
With this regret, I am determined to die.
Standing on a rock on the top of a waterfall.
I have no anxiety.
I recognize for the first time.
Great pessimism is nothing but great optimism.

 

[Float On Okay]

This one is great.

"Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all."
- Heinrich Heine

 

[Deleted member 17331]

"Man is a self-conscious nothing."

"The goal of all ideal striving, is, essentially, the metaphysically impossible, because the world, knows only an endless self-masochism and torture."

Julius Bahnsen.

 

[braketimez]

It is the temporary nature of depression
that the depressive cannot grasp.
Like having your head held underwater for thirty seconds,
it may be finite and most likely you'll survive,
but that doesn't mean you're not going to panic
as your bubbles of existence escape to the surface.

- Ella Wilson

 

[KiraLittleOwl]

Life is just a string of rude awakenings.