A prolific actor who made everyone spellbound was Robin Williams. He was a comedian and a powerhouse of energy. He suffered from the second most common neurodegenerative dementia, Diffuse Lewy Body Dementia. He died by suicide himself on August 11, 2014.
The world lost a giant of the entertainment industry and one of the noblest and wisest souls to have graced the earth when actor Robin Williams committed suicide in August 2014. Williams always made people laugh his whole life, but he fought inside demons that he could not conquer. We all can remember his movie roles. He inspired an entire class of students to do what they truly love and not bow down to pressure in Dead Poets Society. He essayed the role of a hurting widower and professor who makes an unruly and rebellious young genius with many unresolved issues realize his potential in Good Will Hunting. He also played a woman with elan and tickled our funny bone in Mrs. Doubtfire. According to the records Robin Williams killed himself because he was depressed, but his wife Susan Williams set the record straight.”It was not depression that killed Robin. Depression was one of let’s call it 50 symptoms and it was a small one,” she said in an interview.
According to her, Williams was suffering from Diffuse Lewy Body Dementia or Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), the second most common neurodegenerative dementia after Alzheimer’s, and that was the reason his suicide. Williams had to hold on in the few months leading up to his death because of this disease. Heightened levels of anxiety, delusions and impaired movement were some of its symptoms and he had been suffering from those. Williams is gone, but his legacy lives on with the many wise words.
Here are some of Williams’ most inspirational quotes that will stay with us forever.
“There is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful.”
“I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.”
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.”
“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anybody else to feel like that.”
“You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.”
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.’
“Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing.”
“Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready.’”
“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
“You must strive to find your own voice because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.”
“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?”
“Never say goodbye because saying goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting.”
“Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, ‘Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.’”
“I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.”