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

Anne Sexton

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

Andrew Solomon

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

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.

Ted Nugent

As long as we continue to fight in between the jamming with all we have to save America from the current suicidal deathwish of the corrupt, criminal punks intentionally destroying the last best place.

Jean Rhys

Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up ...

Thomas A. Edison

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward....

Boss Tweed

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

Bashar al-Assad

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Benjamin Disraeli

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Bill James

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

Edmund Burke

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Elihu Root

I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.

Kevin Soucie

The resolution does not make it law. It also has to be certified by the secretary of state, which they haven't done yet. I think they (Orr) are having second thoughts about it, and they should.

Irwin Redlener

The translation of this is martial law in the United States,

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.