Juliet Marillier Quotes

Suicide - when I think of it, to me it means someone had a lot of problems and they couldn't fight through them anymore. That's not cowardly. It's sad and nothing but.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.

When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.

In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

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.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Depression is rage spread thin.

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm.

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

It got to a point where I didn't care if I lived or I died.

For a long time, I didn't want to live.