Judith Rossner Quotes

It was a really interesting thing to explore, the strength it takes for someone to stay when they truly do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I've been free of it for many years now. Finding the place in my own mind and heart to win that battle without using medication, finding the place within myself where I could be alive again, that was one of the biggest challenges I've faced.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.

I still wake up every day, so I'm winning.

For me, 2016-17 was hell, and there's no way around it for me. I went through pain, depression, fear, doubt, and all of that was a journey that I was able to write through, and then I wrote when I was coming out of that dark place as well.

I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.

And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

To me, it's always been a challenge to look for the light: to look for those spaces in your heart where there is hope and faith and try to embrace that rather than crush it. I've spent so many years trying to crush those feelings of hope, and I certainly succeeded for quite a while.

In some ways, her life is so much worse that everybody else's, people feel almost cheered up and inspired. They feel like, 'If Hayley hasn't killed herself, why should I?'

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don't sit and cry about it. Have your moment, and then get over it.

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.