Scott Baio Quotes

There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

I'm broken from the inside. The depression that has slowly eaten away at me has finally consumed me, and I couldn't beat it.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

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

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

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

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.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Intentions count in your actions.

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

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.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.