Jack Nicholson Quotes

So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

I'm broken from the inside. The depression that has slowly eaten away at me has finally consumed me, and I couldn't beat it.

I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

When you get to that point where you don't want to live, and you don't want to die, it's a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use 'The Passion of the Christ' to heal my wounds.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.