Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hun Sen

Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.

Honore de Balzac

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Honore de Balzac

Resignation is a daily suicide.

Honore de Balzac

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

Honore de Balzac

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Hassan Nasrallah

Peace will not wipe out the memory of the massacres it has committed...And on this last day of the century, I promise Israel that it will see more suicide attacks, for we will write our history with blood,

Hassan Nasrallah

Martyrdom operations - suicide bombings - should be exported outside Palestine. I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don't be shy about it.

James Frey

I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank.

Isaac Asimov

I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.

Immanuel Kant

...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this world under certain conditions and for specific purposes. But a suicide opposes the purpose of his creator; he arrives in the other world as one who has deserted his post; he must be looked upon as a rebel against God. God is our owner; we are his property; his providence works for our good.

Immanuel Kant

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

Elton John

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

Elton John

What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.

Elle Fanning

I love the '70s, I'm very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides.

Pat Buchanan

With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide,

Oscar Wilde

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Curiosity is its own suicide ...

Marilyn Monroe

When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

Mark Vonnegut

I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers in preventing suicide. It's a very good thing to decrease suicide but we should care at least a little if I'm not killing myself because I feel better or if I just can't remember where I put the damn gun.

Nicholas D. Kristof

More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

Mitt Romney

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

R. D. Laing

What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.

Pierre Salinger

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

Noam Chomsky

The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be a disaster. There's some resistance to that now. In the US, it's essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration.

John Ashcroft

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime

John Ashbery

The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly ended. The wedding-cake drawbridge lowered itself To the fragile forget-me-not flower. You climbed aboard. Burnt horizons suddenly paved with golden stones, Dreams I had, including suicide, Puff out the hot-air balloon now. It is bursting, it is about to burst

Jodi Picoult

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.

Kay Redfield Jamison

There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide.