Samuel Beckett Quotes

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.

I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

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.

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

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.

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

Living, it's awful for me.

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.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

I still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wanting to live. I was on an express elevator to the bottom floor, wherever that might be.

I was in depression. I was in my room, dark every night, not wanting to talk to nobody, not going out with my friends, not doing anything, not having a great time. It was a lot of dark nights.

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things - but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.

Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.

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

I truly, truly suffered depression, to the deep core.