In today's fast-paced world, mental health awareness is more crucial than ever. Suicide prevention is a significant global challenge that requires the collective effort of society. By centering our conversations on hope, resilience, and support, we create a lifeline of words that can reach those in need. Sharing quotes that inspire, comfort, and encourage can serve as a beacon, reminding individuals that they are not alone. The following article provides suicide prevention quotes categorized under ten different sub-themes. Each set of quotes aims to offer comfort, provide guidance, and inspire hope, contributing to a culture that values life and encourages seeking help.
Quotes About Hope
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." - Desmond Tutu
"Once you choose hope, anything is possible." - Christopher Reeve
"Hope is the heartbeat of the soul." - Michelle Horst
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." - Tom Bodett
"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever." - Roy T. Bennett
"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear." - Suzanne Collins
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes
"Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed." - Mason Cooley
"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow." - Orison Swett Marden
"Hope is the echo of the soul against the walls of the world." - Terry Pratchett
"Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free." - Frank Darabont
"Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles." - Samuel Smiles
Quotes on Courage
"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" - Mary Anne Radmacher
"Courage isn't having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Inhale courage, exhale fear." - Unknown
"Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing." - Emma Donoghue
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." - Nelson Mandela
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E.E. Cummings
"Courage is found in unlikely places." - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Courage is grace under pressure." - Ernest Hemingway
"Be strong now because things will get better. It might be stormy, but it can't rain forever." - Unknown
Quotes for Healing
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." - Rumi
"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." - Tori Amos
"Take all the time you need to heal emotionally. Moving on doesn’t take a day; it takes a lot of little steps to be able to break free of your broken self." - Tere Arigo
"Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love." - Maza Dohta
"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance." - Jodi Picoult
"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind." - Caroline Myss
"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." - Nido Qubein
"Time heals almost everything. Give time time." - Regina Brett
"The moment you start feeling alive, healing begins." - Jonathan Harnisch
"To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear." - Stephen Levine
"Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives." - Akshay Dubey
"When you can tell your story and it doesn’t make you cry, you know you have healed." - Karen Salmansohn
Quotes on Resilience
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller
"Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up." - Mary Holloway
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." - Margaret Thatcher
"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived." - Robert Jordan
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become." - Carl Jung
"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient." - Steve Maraboli
"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance." - Jodi Picoult
"It’s your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop." - Dieter F. Uchtdorf
"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." - J.K. Rowling
Quotes on Support
"Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey." - Vera Nazarian
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." - Lou Holtz
"We rise by lifting others." - Robert Ingersoll
"Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings." - Miles Franklin
"Remember, no man is a failure who has friends." - It’s a Wonderful Life
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up." - John Holmes
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood." - Marie Curie
"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher." - Oprah Winfrey
"Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others." - Booker T. Washington
"I get by with a little help from my friends." - The Beatles
"Lean on me, when you're not strong, and I'll be your friend. I'll help you carry on." - Bill Withers
Quotes for Self-Worth
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha
"To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness." - Robert Morley
"You are enough just as you are." - Meghan Markle
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The only thing standing between you and your worth is your mind." - Erin Brown
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line." - Lucille Ball
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are." - Yogi Bhajan
"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing you’ll ever do." - Brené Brown
"Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions; do your thing, and don't care if they like it." - Tina Fey
"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others." - Christopher Germer
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
Quotes on Overcoming
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." - Nelson Mandela
"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t." - Rikki Rogers
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine
"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." - Michael Jordan
"Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success." - Shiv Khera
"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
"You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you." - Dan Millman
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Quotes on Life
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." - Dalai Lama
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius
"May you live all the days of your life." - Jonathan Swift
"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." - Oprah Winfrey
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is a series of tiny miracles. Notice them." - Unknown
Quotes on Mindfulness
"The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Just when you think you know everything, something comes along and makes you realize just how much you don't know." - Ron Brackin
"Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations." - Oliver Goldsmith
"In mindfulness, the practitioner is not run by this pressure of 'like' and 'dislike'." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Mindfulness is a pause—the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies." - Tara Brach
"Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it." - Sharon Salzberg
"Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent." - Rumi
"Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts." - Allan Lokos
"Mindfulness is the lamp that lights up the mind and illuminates everything." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
"Breathe deeply, let go, and remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure." - Oprah Winfrey
Quotes for New Beginnings
"Every moment is a fresh beginning." - T.S. Eliot
"The beginning is always today." - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello." - Paulo Coelho
"Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations." - Catherine Pulsifer
"No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again." - Jack Kornfield
"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?" - L.M. Montgomery
"Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney
"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning." - Meister Eckhart
"Letting go doesn’t mean you failed; it just means you are making room for something new." - Unknown
"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning." - Criss Jami
"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings." - Lao Tzu
Final words
In the fight against suicide, it is essential to remember that words have power. They can comfort, inspire, and provide the motivation needed to carry on through trying times. The quotes shared in this article serve as a reminder that even in the darkest moments, there is hope, and there are paths to healing and resilience. These are not just mere words; they embody the collective wisdom of countless souls who have encountered adversity, fought with courage, and emerged with renewed strength. We must remember that reaching out and fostering an environment of compassion can help change the tides for those silently struggling. Encouraging open dialogue about mental health and providing support where needed are crucial steps in prevention. Remember, reaching out can be the first step to healing—for yourself or someone else. You are never alone, and help is always within reach. Choose hope, choose life, and choose to stand by those who need it most.
