Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Rivers

I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke.

Leo Tolstoy

How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

Joy Harjo

The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.

Joyce Carol Oates

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

Jules Renard

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

Maggie Stiefvater

Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help.

Maggie Stiefvater

I considered calling Grace to ask her what I should say to a reticent suicidal werewolf, but I'd left my phone somewhere. Car, maybe.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

Joyce Carol Oates

Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.

Rebecca West

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

Pete Doherty

I'm not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways. You always think it's going to be fine, the body will repair itself. There will be another chance. But I'm 33 now. The body won't keep repairing itself. You know when you can flick a coin and catch it on your elbow, and flick it up and catch it on the back of your head? And then you can't even catch it with two hands any more. You realise something is wrong ...

Thomas Browne

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.

Rodney Dangerfield

I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself.

Will Smith

The game cannot be won, only played.

William Bernbach

In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.

Stephenie Meyer

You don't get a lot of suicidal vampires.

Marc Maron

Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.

Thomas A. Edison

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward....

Sylvia Plath

Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his inner ear so he could leave this world as he'd entered it through the undependable irrational influence of water. -Kevin Jeffery Clark It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.

Sylvia Plath

The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.

Tony Hancock

He ended up on his own. I thought, he's got rid of everybody else, he's going to get rid of himself and he did." "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.

Thomas Merton

The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being.

Keith Emerson

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

Rush Limbaugh

I don't watch cable news at night. So I can honestly tell you that I am not in a funk, I am not depressed, I'm not suicidal, I'm not thinking it's over.

Woody Allen

There have been times when I've thought about it - but with my luck it would probably turn out to be only a temporary solution.

Saint Augustine

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

Wendell Berry

We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy that is really not an economy at all but merely a financial system, one that is unnatural, undemocratic, sacrilegious, and ephemeral.