Don Gibson Quotes

I was so broken when I did the first record. I was living in my parents' basement, I didn't know anyone. I was broken-hearted and writing this really dark record. I was at the bottom of a well.

When you are debilitated, and you're very depressed, and you believe there's no hope, you cannot get a better potpourri of down.

Not having a roof over your head at night must be frightening, cold, lonely and depressing. To be seriously ill as well must be beyond upsetting.

It got to a point where I didn't care if I lived or I died.

From January to December of 2019, I crumbled, to be real, and I think by the end of 2019 I had beaten myself up in every possible way to the point where I wasn't even a person. I was fully at rock bottom.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, 'What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?' I get what you're saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

1967 was the bleakest, darkest, most emotional period of my life.

It got to a point where I didn't care... about living at all.

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

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.

Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.