Marlene Dietrich Quotes

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

I feel like dying when I'm helpless

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

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

I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years.

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 want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

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

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

If it's just the same with you, Mr. President, I'd like to lie down and die.

None of us can be sure of how long we will live. Because this is so, I think you should try not to think too much about dying but think about all the nice things that make life so precious to us all.

Did I pray for death? I did one time. I wanted to die so badly. And I didn't want to die. I wanted to rest, you know. And I knew the only rest I would find is in death.

It got to a point where I didn't care... about living at all.

You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

No pills gonna cure my ill.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.

And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.

My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing