Joe Perry Quotes

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

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

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

If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

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

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

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.

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so.

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

I went through an extreme depression.

But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

For people considering suicide, it is bullshit. Endure the moment.

Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front of your co-workers and end the misery." I don't know how many of you ever tried to jump off of a Pizza Hut, but you'll just get a sprained ankle out of the deal. Then you'll have to go back inside, and serve crazy bread.

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.