Over 100 Powerful Quotes on Suicide Awareness and Prevention
In light of the heavy and taboo topic of suicide, we must delicately wield the power of words. This article offers a poignant collection of quotes designed to spark conversation, offer solace, and foster understanding around the sensitive issue of suicide. Grounded in empathy and hope, the curated phrases aim to shed light on human struggles, driving home the need for compassion and connectedness. These words are powerful tools intended to provide insight into the minds of those in distress, reach out a metaphorical hand, and remind each person of their inherent worth. Let us explore these ten categories, each containing twelve carefully chosen quotes, as we navigate this profound subject matter together.
"The darkest hour has only sixty minutes." - Morris Mandel
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul." - Emily Dickinson
"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." - Tori Amos
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." - Seneca
"This too shall pass." - Persian Proverb
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." - Oscar Wilde
"Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there." - Unknown
"Every storm runs out of rain." - Maya Angelou
"Healing begins with acceptance." - Caroline Myss
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." - Desmond Tutu
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls." - Khalil Gibran
"Be curious, not judgmental." - Walt Whitman
"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery." - J.K. Rowling
"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another." - Alfred Adler
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus
"Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude." - William James
"The greatest ability is the ability to care." - Malcolm X
"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Sometimes the best way to be heard is to listen." - Unknown
"In a world where you can be anything, be kind." - Jennifer Dukes Lee
"Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself." - Mohsin Hamid
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?" - Henry David Thoreau
"What is empathy? It's catching somebody else's fever." - Jerome Kagan
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." - Robert Byrne
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
"The surest way to lose your self-worth is by trying to find it through the eyes of others." - Becca Lee
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." - Oprah Winfrey
"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly." - Chuang Tzu
"Your life is your message to the world. Make sure it's inspiring." - Unknown
"You are enough just as you are." - Meghan Markle
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." - Vicki Corona
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." - Bertrand Russell
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." - Dalai Lama
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent." - John Donne
"Asking for help isn’t giving up. It’s refusing to give up." - Charlie Mackesy
"A strong person is not the one who doesn’t cry. A strong person is the one who cries and sheds tears for a moment, then gets up and fights again." - Unknown
"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves." - Proverbs 31:8
"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength." - Dalai Lama
"Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for one person." - Unknown
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up." - John Holmes
"It's never too late to ask for help." - Vince Gowmon
"Surround yourself with people who remind you that you matter." - Unknown
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." - C.S. Lewis
"The most important things in life are the connections you make with others." - Tom Ford
"Helping others is the way we help ourselves." - Oprah Winfrey
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller
"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good." - Elizabeth Edwards
"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient." - Steve Maraboli
"If you’re going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"Tough times never last, but tough people do." - Robert H. Schuller
"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." - Nelson Mandela
"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems." - Gever Tulley
"Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare." - Angela Duckworth
"Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure." - Aisha Tyler
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." - C.C. Scott
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise." - Victor Hugo
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope." - George Eliot
"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
"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind." - C.S. Lewis
"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim." - Graham Greene
"Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light." - Barbara Marciniak
"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference." - Charlie Chaplin
"Despair can make you think things are permanent, but they are not." - Unknown
"It's always darkest before the dawn." - Proverb
"When it is darkest, we can see the stars." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The pits of despair are often the wellsprings of hope." - Unknown
"The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Buddha
"Wherever you are, be all there." - Jim Elliot
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha
"The next message you need is always right where you are." - Ram Dass
"Life is available only in the present moment." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have." - Eckhart Tolle
"The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle." - Jack Kornfield
"Mindfulness is the art of being present in each moment with a heart of gratitude." - Amit Ray
"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Awareness is the greatest agent for change." - Eckhart Tolle
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Rumi
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." - Maya Angelou
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story." - Terry Pratchett
"Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are." - Brené Brown
"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn
"Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway." - Mother Teresa
"Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try." - Michael Jordan
"The things that make me different are the things that make me." - A.A. Milne
"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around." - Henry David Thoreau
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." - Buddha
"The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level." - Eckhart Tolle
"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit." - St. Francis de Sales
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life." - Bryant McGill
"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." - Marvin Gaye
"Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions." - Pema Chödrön
"True mastery of self is the core of holistic living." - Marc David
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little." - Plato
"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep." - William James
"Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared stories." - Jean Houston
"Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives." - Brené Brown
"We are all connected, and we are all affected by the same concerns." - Barack Obama
"The only thing that really matters is to be close to others." - Ian McEwan
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." - Herman Melville
"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." - Ryunosuke Satoro
"Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationships with others." - Stephen R. Covey
"The energy that connects us all; how we love each other despite differences; is the true energy of life." - Yehuda Berg
"We’re all just walking each other home." - Ram Dass
"Self-care is how you take your power back, but connection is how you hold onto it." - Amy Brown
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden." - Goethe
