Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Bacall

I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.

Kara Swisher

It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.

Kit Williams

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

Rick Riordan

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

Raymond Chandler

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

William S. Burroughs

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

Woody Allen

Death is an acquired trait.

Woody Allen

Marriage is the death of hope.

Woody Allen

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Woodrow Wilson

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

Robert Quine

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

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.

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.

Samuel Richardson

He only who gave life has a power over it.

Samuel Beckett

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

William Cowper

How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave.

Ursula K. Le Guin

No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

Robert Pape

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

Wallace Stevens

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

Zhuangzi

Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.

Wilkie Collins

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Walter Scott

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

Winston Churchill

The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.

Rick Warren

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

Robert Green Ingersoll

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

William Hazlitt

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.