50 Inspirational Quotes to Support Suicide Prevention and Hope

"I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Grief is like a drug, and it can bring you to your knees. But we have to keep going, and the darkness will eventually pass."

- Keanu Reeves

"It’s very important to take a step back and recognize that mental illness is just as important as physical illness. You can’t treat it like it doesn’t exist."

- Catherine Zeta-Jones

"If you are contemplating ending your life, know this: Your Life Matters!"

- Germany Kent

"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t."

- Rikki Rogers

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."

- Desmond Tutu

"You’re not alone in your struggle. Everyone is fighting their own battles."

- Selena Gomez

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

- Victor Hugo

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Trust that you will get to the other side of the pain. You really will. It won't last forever. It can't. It won't have the energy - it will fizzle out, just like a rain storm. The sun will come out again. Blue skies will replace the grey, stormy ones. Always keep that in mind, especially when you feel like giving up, or that you "just can't" anymore. That is a temporary feeling that, just like the storm itself, "this too shall pass." If you can't think of anything else in a moment of darkness - remember, the true cliche' that "it is usually the darkest just before the dawn," and "This too shall pass." And then just keep putting one foot in front of the other. Keep keepin' on. Hold on. Hold out. Hold in. Just hold if that is all you can do. It's okay. When the bright light returns - and it ALWAYS does - it will all make more sense. The illusions and distortions of the darkness will show their true face for what they were - often mirages and monsters of our own making in the wee hours of the storm. Just remind yourself, again and again - "This too shall pass." And, just like that - it will. And you will be wiser, stronger, braver, and better for it. Like it or not."

- Connie Kerbs

"My own failed suicide attempt, led me to profession of helping others. Reach out. You are never alone."

- David Essel

"How might things have been different if he spoke only one sentence? And that sentence could have been “Jude, are you trying to kill yourself?” or “Jude, you need to tell me what’s going on,” or “Jude, why do you do this to yourself?” Any of those would have been acceptable; any of those would have led to a larger conversation that would have been reparative, or at the very least preventative."

- Hanya Yanagihara

"No one ever really dies of suicide. They really die of loss of hope in that single moment because they can’t see to the next moment when things are going to get better."

- Leslie Weirich

"The desire to commit suicide, however, has at its base a belief that life cannot or will not improve. Although that may be the case in some instances, it is not true in all instances. Death, however, rules out hope in all instances. We do not have any data indicating that people who are dead lead better lives."

- Marsha M. Linehan

"IT'S OKAY TO NOT BE OKAY. It's also okay to ask for help when you need it."

- Mykisha Mac

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen."

- Loretta Girzartis

"When it is darkest, we can see the stars."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

"What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

- Helen Keller

"Put simply, suicide happens when the outward pressures of life are greater than the inward ability to cope in that moment."

- Karen Gibbs

"Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core."

- Marsha M. Linehan

"The goal of DBT is to help people find the path to getting out of hell."

- Marsha M. Linehan

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"When you feel like giving up, just remember why you held on for so long."

- Hayley Williams

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Grit your teeth and let it hurt. Don’t deny it, don’t be overwhelmed by it. It will not last forever."

- Harold Kushner

"There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"HOPE is the last thing ever lost."

- Italian Proverb

"Everything that is done in this world is done by HOPE."

- Martin Luther

"There is Hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t."

- John Green

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

"Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction."

- Al Green

"This life. This night. Your story. Your hope. It matters. All of it matters."

- Jamie Tworkowski

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"To anyone out there who’s hurting – it’s not a sign of weakness to ask for help. It’s a sign of strength."

- Barack Obama

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nibo Qubein

"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about."

- Haruki Murakami

"Some people suffer in silence, pain in the hearts but smiles on their faces."

- Isha Barlas

"You must watch and observe your friends and family around you. Offer love and support to those who may suffer from acute depression. Depression is one of the most common mental disorders affecting approximately 350 million people all over the world. No person can ever be immune to this mental problem. I have suffered from depression in my life. So, I know the signs pretty well. Approximately one in four women and one in ten men suffer from depression in their lifetime. We need to help and support those who may need it the most"

- Avijeet Das

"I had spent the day before Googling how to kill yourself and how to kill yourself the easiest and how to kill yourself the fastest and when you start to kill yourself do you want to change your mind? but the thing is, when you Google things like that, you won't get answers the way it normally works. You will instead get numbers to hotlines and therapists and articles with lists about why you should stay alive. So of course I was scared."

- Kaleena Madruga

"she didn't want to die. and she didn't want to live any other life than the one that was hers. The one that could be a messy struggle, but it was her messy struggle. A beautiful messy struggle"

- Matt Haig

"I'd like to be sitting here five years from now, Marshal, and know you're still in the world." Teddy looked down at the hand on his knee. Looked up at Cawley. "I would too," he said softly."

- Dennis Lehane

"What I’m praying is that you will choose those beautiful possibilities over any self-annihilating alternatives. My whole life on earth has been the weaving of a single powerful spell. The best part of all my magic was loving you. (as spoken by the character Valerie Hyerman)"

- Aberjhani

"Did you know that we can live forty days without food, and we can live three days without water, and we can actually even live eight minutes without air, but only ONE second without hope."

- Hal Lindsey

"The therapist should not evade probing for the reasons the patient regards suicide as the only escape from his misery or intolerable life situation. The patient generally has considered alternative solutions but has discarded them as useless. The therapist should re-examine these alternatives with the patient."

- Aaron T. Beck

"If for example you are diagnosed with depression, then your clinician might prescribe therapy to reduce your depression and or recommend anti-depressant medication. As we have discussed previously though, reducing the symptoms of mental illness does not seem to reduce the probability that someone will make a suicide attempt. Two treatments in particular, dialectical behavior therapy DBT and cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention, CBT-SP, have demonstrated the ability to reduce the probability of suicidal behaviors in multiple studies conducted by multiple research teams. Other treatments that share many of the same characteristics and components as these treatments via attempted suicide."

- Craig J Bryan

"The things that reduce the symptoms of mental illness probably are not the same things that reduce the probability of suicidal behaviors. Unfortunately we don’t know which active ingredients of suicide focused treatments enable them to reduce the probability of suicidal behaviors better than status quo treatments. We can however reasonably conclude that suicide focused treatments do a better job at reducing the probability of suicidal behaviors because they act on something other than the symptoms of mental illness."

- Craig J Bryan

"Today the causes of suicide are similarly unknown, but evidence from multiple sources suggests that certain types of treatments and interventions can reduce suicidal behaviors better than status quo practices, which often conceptualizes suicide as a symptom or outcome of mental illness. Consistent with this perspective, status quo practices target a patients diagnosed mental illness based on the assumption that reducing these symptoms or eliminating the psychological or behavioral disorder also will reduce or eliminate the risk of suicide."

- Craig J Bryan

"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks."

- Jack Penn

"Just because something isn’t happening for your right now, doesn’t mean that it will never happen."

- Nicky Gumbel

"In that deep place she knew that it was all her fault, that evil arose out of the dark shadows of her heart and seeped into the world poisoning everything. She carried the beast inside her heart, the devourer of happiness... No, no, it's not true, she said silently...God does not want my death, not by my own hand, never by my own hand...It wouldn't help anyone. Wouldn't help, would only hurt. Wouldn't help, would only..."

- Orson Scott Card

"I’ve been bullied my whole life. And now I’ve become a bully, and I’m not proud of it. So I’m going to stop and show the world what it means to be a human."

- Lady Gaga

"Failure is not the opposite of success. It’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible.”"

- Audrey Hepburn

"You're bigger than the sea your sinking in, Koa Whiley."

- Katie Beth

"[Suicide rates in 20th century Britain] goes way up when town gas first makes its way into British homes and comes plunging down as the changeover to natural gas begins in the late 1960s. In that 10 year window as town gas was being slowly phased out, thousands of deaths were prevented."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"You intended to harm me but God used this for good; to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives."

- Joseph

"By suicide, yeu can only hurt the people who loves yeu."

- Sandesh Hukpachongbang

"I used to think that people were in my way, but I’ve come to realize that they’re just part of the journey."

- Jim Carrey

"Stop looking back! When your past calls do NOT pick up! It has nothing new to say."

- Rev Run

"I don’t want my children to be ashamed of me. I want them to be proud of me."

- Princess Diana

"Suicide Islands: The higher the island is, the higher its suicide rate appears to be."

- Steven Magee

"Failed suicide gives a long life in a wheelchair"

- Tamerlan Kuzgov

"Suicide isn't always mean to kill yourself. Sometimes, it means to ruin yourself."

- Tamerlan Kuzgov

"Causes of suicide are cheaper than life."

- Tamerlan Kuzgov

"The darkest nights produce the brightest stars."

- Unknown

"You are not alone; you are loved, and your pain matters."

"Healing takes time, and that’s okay. Be gentle with yourself."

"It is okay to feel lost and unsure. Your journey is unique, and every step forward is a sign of strength."

"Hope is not the absence of pain, but the presence of light."

- Unknown

"Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of the darkness, and sometimes in the middle of the darkness, you find yourself."

- Unknown

"It isn’t weak to ask for help. It’s like using a flashlight when you are lost in the dark."

"The greatest tribute we can give to those we have lost is to live fully and love deeply."

"Your loved one may be gone, but their light continues to shine in your heart."

"In the midst of your sorrow, may you find comfort in the memories you hold."

"Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love."

"When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure."

"When you don’t have the strength to take another step, ask those you love to pull you."

"Great things never come from comfort zones."