Discussion What is your favorite quote about mental illness/suicide?

[sgifeei]

I am making notebook that contains quotes about mentall illness so gimme some <3

 

[SoulWhisperer]

This is more mental health generic but I want to share it anyway in case: "The seriousness of your problems isn't determined by how deep you cut."
It resonated with me and helped me a bit.

Plus I've read a sentence elsewhere in another post by sm1 (I 100% forgot the name of as usual) that said like: "Life can be compared to a book/story. If someone doesn't like the story they should have the full freedom to close the book and move on." (It made more sense with the context tho)

 

[sserafim]

"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well."

 

[Yarani]

Plus I've read a sentence elsewhere in another post by sm1 (I 100% forgot the name of as usual) that said like: "Life can be compared to a book/story. If someone doesn't like the story they should have the full freedom to close the book and move on." (It made more sense with the context tho)

Our society has demonized death to the point that almost everyone is scared of it. Everyone is sad when a friend or a family member dies. But it doesn't have to be this way. Death is not inherently a bad thing. Nowhere in the fabric of this universe is it written that death is bad. That whole idea is just something people made up.

Imagine if books had magic in them that forced you to finish the whole book once you started reading, even if you hated the story. That wouldn't be nice at all, would it? Life is the same way. If you don't like the story, it's okay to close the book and move on. It's up to the reader to decide if the story is worth continuing.

 

[nihilistic_dragon]

I don't understand why suicide is always associated with mental illness? Some of us just don't want to live, simple as that, nothing to do with mental illness.

 

[Steff1337]

 

[ijustwishtodie]

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

 

[Venessolotic]

"Coraline closed her eyes and wished that the Earth would swallow her up"
~Neil Gaiman

 

[SVEN]

"Of all the things in life I've lost, I miss my mind the most."

 

[darksouls]

 

[darksouls]

 

[socksnsandles]

I don't understand why suicide is always associated with mental illness? Some of us just don't want to live, simple as that, nothing to do with mental illness.

100%

 

[TwoSoulsLiveInMe]

"Human nature, I went on, has its limits. It can bear joy, sorrow, pain up to a certain point, but buckles as soon as that point is passed. So the question here is not whether one is weak or strong but whether he can endure the extent of his suffering. It may be moral or physical: and I find it just as strange to say that the person who takes his life is cowardly as it would be out of place to call someone a coward who dies of a malignant fever"

From The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Goethe