Quotes by Mariel Hemingway

“I dont take myself terribly seriously. Its why I can be incredibly honest about my life. My problems arent so different from anybody else. I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction”

“Ive been depressed. Ive had suicidal thoughts. I realize Im not really full-on there because I never could plan it. But the fact of the matter is, there is a way out, there is help.”

“The Hemingway curse was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.”

Babies have the power to make grumpy people happy because they love you no matter what. Dogs are that way, too.

…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.

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.

Being loud after drinking wine doesnt help. Being silent after drinking wine doesnt help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because hed shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because thats my job. Its no one elses.