Surviving Suicide Quotes

“They say that God doesn't give you more than you can handle.
Tell that to her.”
― Anna Kay Akana, Surviving Suicide

“Wow. I'm twenty years old. Rene Descartes invented analytic geometry in his early twenties. Talk about pressure.”
― Anna Kay Akana, Surviving Suicide

“I don't think of it as suicide. I like to think of it as leaving. She didn't want to stay, so she left.

What if I want to leave?

Sometimes I wonder if I need help. Suicidal thoughts aren't normal, right? constant depression isn't healthy, right? But I smile all the time. I have my moments. Lately I've been falling deeply into something I can't get out of. I don't like the life I'm living. I don't like the person I am. I love many people, but I don't feel as though I'm as important to them. I don't feel like I'll be missed. I wonder if I'll ever be able to tell anyone I need help.”
― Anna Akana, Surviving Suicide

“All you have control over is this moment. Chase it.”
― Anna Kay Akana, Surviving Suicide

“Because she is my sister and I am her protector. And since I failed in that duty in life, I will satisfy it in death.”
― Anna Kay Akana, Surviving Suicide

“I felt like the ocean. I felt like my insides were spread out so far and wide and there were so many things inside of me all at once, and thoughts racing and swimming and I felt like I was drowning in tidal waves of grief.”
― Anna Akana, Surviving Suicide

“Because we are human. We adapt, we adjust, and we think too damn much.”
― Anna Kay Akana, Surviving Suicide

“And I chose life and love and happiness and pain”
― Anna Kay Akana, Surviving Suicide

“I don't think of it as suicide. I like to think of it as leaving. She didn't want to stay, so she left.”
― Anna Akana, Surviving Suicide

“I thought that when someone dies, a person changes. I thought you'd lose your
sense of being judged and caring about this judgement; I thought you'd hold life in the
palm of your hand and dance and water it with rain. I thought you'd be able to dance in
a crowd and laugh. But I was wrong. I am insecure, more than I was before. I take
things for granted. I'm angry, mean, judgmental, critical, bitter and quick to assume. I am lethargic. I despise all around me. And then some days, I feel normal.”
― Anna Akana, Surviving Suicide

“All you have control ove is this moment. Chase it.”
― Anna Kay Akana, Surviving Suicide