Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

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

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Everyone can relate to depression. It touches so many. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Statistics show that women suffer from depression more than men, but that is probably because men don't report it as much.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.

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 really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

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.

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

Slow-motion suicide

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

Let teens know that suicide is almost always the result of a complex mix of factors rather than a single event such as a breakup or bullying. It can be related to a sometimes undiagnosed mental disorder such as depression.