James A. Garfield Quotes

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I went through an extreme depression.

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

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.

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 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.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

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

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

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

I'm somewhat depressive.

Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.

Depression is not a choice.

Nobody is immune to feeling depressed.

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

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

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.

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

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