Paul Westerberg Quotes

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.

Suicide is not a remedy.

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I'd become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.

There are people who are just suicidal, regardless. They are built to self-destruct. It seems, in my family, like a virus that's resistant to any kind of help or care or medication.

The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

When suicide hit my family, we learned first-hand that no one is immune from what is now the 10th leading cause of death in the US.

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They're going through something that's very, very hard.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.