Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Kafka

. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

Franz Kafka

Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

Franz Kafka

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Erich Fromm

People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.

Eric Burdon

I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.

Eric Clapton

In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead.

Franz Liszt

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Frank Capra

Man must be able to recover, to win out, triumph over adversity. And I don't mean just the little adversity like paying his room rent or something. But those deep, deep human adversities because something he has faith in has turned to ashes. Where someone he loves turns out to be just another joke. You get to the point of suicide. But you can bounce back - they can't completely destroy you.

Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.

George W. Bush

Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice - made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.

George W. Bush

First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules. And the idea of using a controlled substance to end somebody's life is something I don't agree with. I can see the idea of using controlled substances to ease somebody's pain. That makes sense.

George W. Bush

The suicide bombings have increased. There's too many of them.

George Carlin

Why do they bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? "Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself."

George Carlin

You know who would make an interesting murder-suicide? Madeline Albright and Yanni.

George Carlin

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

George Carlin

The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.

Frederick Buechner

To be bored to death is a form of suicide.

George Eastman

To my friends: My work is done. Why wait? (suicide note)

Fernando Pessoa

When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.

F. H. Bradley

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

F. H. Bradley

But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

Ezra Pound

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

Ezra Pound

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

Florence Henderson

I can't decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling.

Florence King

When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you encounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.

Henri Barbusse

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

Henri Barbusse

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

Henri Barbusse

It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.

Henning Mankell

What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.

Henny Youngman

I'd commit suicide, if I could do it without killing myself.

Jared Padalecki

On New Year's Eve, my dear friend lost his battle with depression . . . Though he wasn't the first friend I've lost to suicide, I sure hope he's the last. I wish I had the chance to go back and tell them what they meant to me. I wish I had the chance to beg them to seek help, to keep fighting. I wish they knew that they were surrounded by countless others who struggle on a daily basis.

Jaron Lanier

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.