Madeline Brewer Quotes

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

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

I had a couple years of depression. I started drinking too much. I had to up my antidepressants. I cried all day, every day, and I lost weight. But I had to take care of two kids. It wasn't about me anymore.

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

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

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.

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

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

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.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.

And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

I tell people, if you're thinking about suicide, all that stuff I've attempted and thought about it. If you think about it, life gets better. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.

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

When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.

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

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

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

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.

I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

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