Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Korten

When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

David Graeber

We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.

Byron Katie

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.

William Shakespeare

It is silliness to live when to live is torment.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. But since the tendency toward inertia means that it's easier for me to stay alive than die, I guess that's how it's going to be, so I guess I should try to be happy.

ASAP Rocky

I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

Arthur Koestler

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

Alain Prost

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

Alan Alda

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Alan Alda

Be brave enough to live creatively.

Chogyam Trungpa

Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

Dave Gould

Come on, somebody be brave.

Camille Paglia

If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.

Brandon Lewis

We are always pleased to see our customers finding success with our software. Entrepreneurs, by nature, are very brave people. Taking a business online has unique challenges, but our products and services continue to help thousands of small businesses successfully establish an online presence.

Lesli Linka Glatter

Demi Moore is an extremely sexy woman. Melanie Griffith, Annette Bening - these are all brave women. They've all managed to have kids and still be sexy. If anything, being a mom makes them even sexier.

William Shakespeare

I was a coward on instinct.

Edith Piaf

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

Charlotte Bronte

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

Brent Weeks

The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.

B. C. Forbes

When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Adolf Hitler

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

Iyad Allawi

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers.

Sean Howard

We won't stand for cowardly acts. We just want this rash of violence to end in our community.

Emily Bronte

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see Heaven's glories shine, And, Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear