Hal Holbrook Quotes

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

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

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

I probably suffered with depression.

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself

Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping. Just running until she couldn’t run anymore. Jumping from something so high that she’d never hit the bottom.

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.

I want to kill myself, to escape from responsiblity, to crawl abjectly back into the womb.

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

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

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

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters.

Depression is a very serious thing. People don't realise how deadly it can be.

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.