Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

Al Green

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

Charles Bukowski

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.

e. e. cummings

in a middle of a room stands a suicide sniffing a Paper rose smiling to a self "somewhere it is Spring and sometimes people are in real:imagine somewhere real flowers,but I can't imagine real flowers for if I could,they would somehow not Be real" (so he smiles smiling)"but I will not everywhere be real to you in a moment" The is blond with small hands "& everything is easier than I had guessed everything would be;even remembering the way who looked at whom first,anyhow dancing

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Anne Sexton

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

Anne Sexton

But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.

Andrew Solomon

I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.

Andrew Solomon

That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.

Rita Mae Brown

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

James Curtis

Obviously to be successful and stay on TV, the show has to be entertaining, ... You can stick to what's real about the relationship between these individuals. That, in and of itself, is entertainment enough to warrant being kept on the air.

Dave Tippett

From an entertainment factor, we held up our end tonight.

Christopher Knight

If I'm going to re-approach the entertainment industry, there's no room for chubby.

Christopher Isherwood

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Liana Wallace

One of the things we are hearing from parents is that this is a much-needed facility for teenagers, where they can go for entertainment and are not hanging out somewhere, getting into trouble.

T. S. Eliot

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Carol Burnett

I'm so happy that we can share the many years of music and sketches from our shows with the students of UCLA and people interested in the entertainment industry,

Joe Burnett

Most of the entertainment is over by 11:45 p.m..

Theodor Reik

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Frank Robinson

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

Romy Schneider

You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Richard M. Nixon

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

William Carey

The less said about me the better.

Thomas a Kempis

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

Joshua Homme

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.