Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Spelling

Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?

Charlie Cook

The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don't know what these guys think they're doing, but it looks like they're committing political suicide.

Charles Caleb Colton

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

Charles Caleb Colton

The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

Brian Crozier

A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.

Brent Spiner

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

Darren Shan

You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.

Dave Chappelle

Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it's not nothing, it's something," he continued. "But it's not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.

Carlos Ghosn

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

Carlos Fuentes

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Carlos Fuentes

In literature, you know only what you imagine

Carlos Fuentes

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

Carlos Fuentes

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.

Carlos Fuentes

Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.

Carlos Fuentes

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

Carlos Fuentes

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

Carlos Fuentes

I need, therefore I imagine.

Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Charles de Lint

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

Chris Abani

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

Bruce Cockburn

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

Brandon Sanderson

A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood

Arthur Conan Doyle

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

Ben Okri

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

Vin Diesel

This woman comes from the darkness into the spotlight and says, 'Get down here right this minute!'

Carl Jung

Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.