Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a matching and terrible reality of the deaths themselves: the young deaths, the violent deaths, the unnecessary deaths

When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.

One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it's the most tragic thing anybody can go through.

Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is living. At age 30, when men can bury themselves in their jobs and are physically and financially attractive to women, the loss of the one woman a man loves is so devastating it is often not softened even by the opportunities for many women... in brief, it is the loss of love that devastates men.

Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

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

I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I'd lost my faithful ally. I couldn't sleep, couldn't get the loss out of my mind. It was like discovering that someone in my family had died.

That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.

Moments is about a girl dying and her boyfriend committing suicide because he can't live without her

Suicide is the only way out.

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

Suicide kills two people.

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.

The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering are everywhere.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.