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.

Annie Besant

Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded his self murder, and go through the act and the death struggle time after time with ghastly persistence... They remain conscious - often entangled in the final scene of the earth life for a very long time, unaware that they have lost the physical body.

Anna Wickham

I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high.

Alfred Adler

All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Erwin Rommel

Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.

Erwin Rommel

One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.

Erma Bombeck

When humor go's, there go's civilization.

Flora Lewis

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

Fannie Farmer

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Francis Parkman

Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.

George Washington

Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality.

G. H. Hardy

The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy.

Philip Roth

The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

George Zimmerman

I deal with the hatred by loving my supporters more.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

Warren Mitchell

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.