Suicide Prevention Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old suicide prevention quotes, suicide prevention sayings, and suicide prevention proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Seneca
This life. This night. Your story. Your pain. Your hope. It matters. All of it matters. Jamie Tworkowski
Think of all the beauty thats still left in and around you and be happy! Anne Frank
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. Karl A. Menninger
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda
If you are looking for a sign not to kill yourself, this is it. unknown
Never never never give up. Winston Churchill
The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world. G.K. Chesterton
Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive. Dr. Howard Thurman
Life doesn't come with a REWIND, FAST FORWARD or PAUSE BUTTON. Once it starts it PLAYS until it ends or you press STOP. Never press STOP just enjoy it while it PLAYS. Sonya Parker
Choosing whether you respond to the situation as a negative or as an opportunity to react with a new and different perspective sets in motion the course of what happens. Michael Nulty
You can do things today that shape your unknown future. Make every day the time when you turn what you don't know into what would like to happen. Michael Nulty
Taking back control of your life and finding a way to become hopeful, optimistic and believe that what you desire and want is possible and day is coming when everything changes, your life will eventually become easier and you will begin to see life as it was meant to be. Michael Nulty
Let go of any regrets you have since, you can't go back and change anything, you have the choice of moving forward or continue struggling. Michael Nulty
The key to getting beyond your struggles is making choices that invite new possibilities - new ways of thinking, feeling, behaving and living your life for the better. Michael Nulty
You are learning to be fearless and becoming who you were always meant to be. Marie White
You can either crushed by horrific event and lose your sanity, your family and your life. Or, you can take this pain that was thrust upon you, to propel into greatness. You can make it through this. I know it's hard. Marie White
There is a hero inside of you. You are the main character in an epic struggle between good and evil. Ler's travel to the dark places of grief together and climb out, where we can see the bigger picture. Marie White
There is beauty in the journey, regardless of the outcome. Let's grieve and hope and fight together. Marie White
One day you will get more than what you could have ever perceived in the most wildest of your dreams; as you selflessly diffused the same; to all those brutally strangulated in the dormitories of unbelievably merciless agony. And that day was invincibly sure to come in yours and every benevolent entity's life; so keep optimistically conceiving and working towards that day; don't lose hope; don't yet die. Nikhil Parekh
Don't forget who you are and where you came from. Don't get too emotionally over little things. Don't. Quit until you win grand prize. Robert Randle
You who drink because of shame that you think will last, or because of wrong done you—trouble in the past—“Nothing left to live for now,” you will say, I know; but you have your own self yet, give that self a show! Henry Lawson
Leave what’s alive in the furrow, what’s dead in yourself, for life does not move in the same way as a group of clouds; from your work you will be able one day to gather yourself. Miguel de Unamuno
Now you are only giving food to that final pain which is slowly winding you in the nets of death, but to live is to work, and the only thing which lasts is the work; start there, turn to the work. Miguel de Unamuno
Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit; sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate that brushes your heel as it turns going by, the man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant. Miguel de Unamuno
Nobody on earth could live for you other than you yourself; in order to be an integral element of the drapery of this effervescent planet; and further embellish each step that you tread on with the spirit of immortal love,Then why do you keep weeping that you were all alone; when you had infact the most invincibly blessed company on earth to disseminate love; friendship and undying charm—which was by the Grace of God none other; but you yourself. Nikhil Parekh
Don't always know why I kept moving, but it never - for long - felt like an option not to. Grim determination? Matt Haig
I spend a lot of time wondering what dying feels like. What dying sounds like. If I’ll burst like those notes, let out my last cries of pain, and then go silent forever. Or maybe I’ll turn into a shadowy static that’s barely there, if you just listen hard enough. Jasmine Warga
Even the people who once fought for others tend to get weak and eventually "give up" and lose interest in the worth of fighting any longer. Osjusn CC
Killing yourself slowly is still killing yourself. Wanting to die is not the same as wanting to come home. Recovery is hard work. Not wanting to die is hard work. Blythe Baird