Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Banville

Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.

P. Herbert

Death is still working like a mole, / And digs my grave at each remove.

P. J. O'Rourke

Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.

Stella Young

Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated.

Nora Ephron

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

George Grace

Death is a part of the process in storm recovery, ... We're not Houston. We can't house thousands of evacuees. We can host this staff and let them do their work.

Deborah Pearlstein

Death is a given in wartime. But this isn't about death in the heat of battle; this is about how we treat those already at the mercy of U.S. forces. It's about who is responsible for the policy and practice of the United States.

Njeru Ndwiga

Death has robbed us of a true servant who was keen on his job.

Philip Massinger

Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one

Arthur Miller

Suicide kills two people.

Art Buchwald

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

Ayelet Waldman

I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.

Ayn Rand

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

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.

Derrick Jensen

We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Brad Paisley

I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Alan Dershowitz

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Janet Jackson

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.

Diane Abbott

There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.

Dan Aykroyd

You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.

Connie Willis

No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.