Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

Adam Ant

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.

Alexander Hamilton

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

Aleister Crowley

The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.

Alberto Manguel

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

Alex Campbell

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

A. B. Yehoshua

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs

Adrienne Rich

in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel on ones we knew and loved Praise to life though its windows blew shut on the breathing-room of ones we knew and loved Praise to life though ones we knew and loved loved it badly, too well, and not enough Praise to life though it tightened like a knot on the hearts of ones we thought we knew loved us Praise to life giving room and reason to ones we knew and loved who felt unpraisable. Praise to them, how they loved it, when they could.

Agatha Christie

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

There is a possibility that it was a suicide attack, but we are still investigating.

Alan Keyes

I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.

Al Yankovic

Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling.

Alain de Botton

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

Al Green

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

Charles J. Shields

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

Charles A. Beard

Killing time is not murder, it is suicide.

Charles Barkley

Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

Antonio Porchia

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Antonio Porchia

You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.

Bruce Hoffman

With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.

Edward Young

Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.

Edward Young

Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

Courtney Love

For people considering suicide, it is bullshit. Endure the moment.

Courtney Love

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

Albert Camus

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

Albert Camus

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Albert Camus

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

Albert Camus

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

Albert Camus

Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.

Albert Camus

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

Albert Camus

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide