Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Quine

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

Sara Teasdale

When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now

Sara Teasdale

I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now.

Ricky Martin

When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.

Richard Russo

I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.

Rich Lowry

Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.

Robert Crumb

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Tupac Shakur

Make me wanna kill myself, but I see death around the corner.

Tupac Shakur

I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.

Tupac Shakur

So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.

Tori Amos

got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.

Richard Dawkins

If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a good bet that there would be no suicide bombers.

Richard Dawkins

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

Robin Tunney

I don't know if directors go, 'Hey! We've got another suicide-let's call Robin Tunney! It's weird, but they're all different, and I guess it gives the characters some kind of power... At least I play women who are strong enough to take the power into their own hands! And kill themselves! So many women in films just shoot themselves in the head anyway, because they're not really there for any reason.

Robin Williams

I thought I was fooling people. But it's the old thing of 'they say vodka doesn't smell'. No, not until you sweat. And you just lie and lie and you think 'I can deal with this'. And then you finally go, 'No you can't'. And then you give up.

Robin Williams

"It's just literally being afraid. And you think, oh, [the alcohol] will ease the fear. And it doesn't." What was he afraid of? "Everything. It's just a general all-round arggghhh. It's fearfulness and anxiety." He added, "For that first week you lie to yourself, and tell yourself you can stop, and then your body kicks back and says, no, stop later. And then it took about three years, and finally you do stop."

Torii Hunter

To catch a ball, I'd commit suicide.

Veronica Roth

Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.

Saddam Hussein

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

Ryan Gosling

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

Roddy Doyle

Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roberto Bolano

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

Robert Pape

The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion.

Robert Pape

What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.

Robert Pape

Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad social support within the national communities from which they recruit, because they are seen as pursuing legitimate nationalist goals, especially liberation from foreign occupation.

Wallace Stevens

Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.

Warren Ellis

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

Vincent Van Gogh

It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

Vladimir Lenin

The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

Walter Benjamin

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

William Bernbach

Imitation can be commercial suicide.

Walker Percy

They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.