Phil Donahue Quotes

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.

Suicide is not a remedy.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.

If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

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 never tried to kill myself or anything.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

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.

There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.

I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.

I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

I once talked about wanting to kill myself, but I don't think I was ever really planning on doing it. It was just comforting to know that I could.

I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead.

I want to kill myself, to escape from responsiblity, to crawl abjectly back into the womb.

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

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

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

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

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.

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.

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.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

Sit down, man. You're a bloody tragedy.

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