Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me. I quit."
-- Bill Maher

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
-- Oprah

Take away the right to say -fuck-, and you take away the right to say -fuck the government-.
-- Lenny Bruce

Only the supressed word is dangerous.
-- Ludwig Berne

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis

Poor is the man whose pleasure depend on the permission of another.
-- Madonna

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
-- Voltaire

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

A "no" uttered from the deepest conviction is better and greater than a "yes" merely uttered to to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
-- Mahatma Ghandi

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
-- Isaac Asimov

Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
-- Bertrand Russell

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
-- Eric Hoffer

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
-- Robert Anthony

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Hope in reality is the worst ofall evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
-- Friedrich Nietsche

One of my shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
-- Lars Ulrich

Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character.
-- Calvin and Hobbes

Running away will never make you free.
-- Kenny Loggins, I'm Free

Gonzo: I had that dream again.
Rizzo: You mean the one with the dwarf, the goat and the peanut butter?
Gonzo: Uh, no.
-- Muppets from Space

Better to die once and for all, than to live in continual terror.
-- Aesop

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
-- General George S. Patton, Jr.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.
-- Soren Kierkegaard

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw though the leather straps.
-- Emo Phillips

When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord, in His wisdom, didn't work that way. So I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
-- Emo Phillips

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
-- A. Sachs

There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny.
-- Anonymous

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
-- Henry Miller

Things were getting to me. Just how people are. How they always expect you to be a certain way. Even your best friend.

-- Angela, My So-Called Life

The worst feeling is suddenly realizing that you don't measure up. And that, in the past, when you thought you did, you were a fool.

-- Angela, My So-Called Life

When I was little, I worshipped Halloween. And truthfully, part of me still does. 'Cause it's your one chance to be someone else.

-- Angela, My So-Called Life

It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says, "To whom it may concern."

-- Anonymous Belfast resident

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.

-- Susan B. Anthony

I was me, but now he's gone.
-- Metallica, Fade to Black

My mother always said she was the kind of person who was her daughter's best friend. So, I thought Great! Not only do I have a shitty mother, but my best friend is a loser bitch.
-- Dedee, The Opposite of Sex

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism, and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
-- Florence King

You start out depressed, everything turns out a pleasant surprise.
-- Lloyd, Say Anything

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempts to prove otherwise constitutes inacceptable behavoir.
-- Fran Lebowitz

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate and you who are tortured body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
-- Antonio Artaud