Mariel Hemingway > Quotes

“…there is rarely any rhyme or reason in suicides. They can be a cry for help gone wrong, or a punishment to those you’re leaving behind, or one fateful twenty-minute window when you lose your bearings and can’t find the reasons to go on.”
― Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

“A family is a cracked mirror that nevertheless reflects us accurately.”
― Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

“Everyone needs to take control of his or her own life by making sense of it. It doesn’t matter how conventional or unconventional that process is.”
― Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

“Those that have lost their lives to suicide were good people, who were in deep, deep pain. Keep speaking about mental illness and keep it out of the darkness.”
― Mariel Hemingway

“Suicide is a permanent question.”
― Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

“Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.”
― Mariel Hemingway, Invisible Girl

“I told her about how people in families felt left out sometimes, and how that could result in disappointment or sadness but also become something more volatile, a kind of uncontrolled fury.”
― Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

“remember that my father was sad much of the time and that he grasped at ways of feeling better, whether through drinking or through escape. He reached out and all too often found nothing there to comfort him.”
― Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

“innuendos—and sometimes they weren’t even”
― Mariel Hemingway, Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

“Babies have the power to make grumpy people happy because they love you no matter what. Dogs are that way, too.”
― Mariel Hemingway, Invisible Girl

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Mariel Hemingway