“I don't believe in making movies to cater to a foreign audience. You never know what the reaction is going to be anyhow. At the time I made Maborosi, the Japanese movies getting any foreign attention were all period dramas and seemed to be about some representative element of Japanese life, and my movie was contemporary movie about one specific woman trying to understand her husband's suicide.” KnowsTryingBelieveMadeAttentionAudiencePeriodsDramaHusbandElementsSuicideDon't BelieveReactionsContemporaryRepresentatives Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“I'd just written the book Ocean Of Sound, and this terrible thing happened in my life: my wife committed suicide. I was a single parent because of that; I was completely shattered. I had a book that I'd just finished that had been produced through a really, really terrible period, but I had managed to finish it.” BookParentSoundWifeWrittenHappenedPeriodsTerribleOceanSuicideCommittedMy WifeFinishedThings HappenTerrible ThingsShatteredSingle Parent Author:David Toop
“Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.” MenWorldInspirationalYearsHandsMotivationalThreeMoneyRaceHalfHonestPeriodsSuicideBeing HonestThree YearsPhilanthropySuicidal Thoughts Author:Ted Turner
“At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.” ChildrenIdeasDeathFeltDyingPeriodsSuicideLongingDefenseCommitTemptationProtestWithin YouSuicidalDeep WithinLonging For Death Book:This Business of Living Source: This Business of Living
“I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)” PeopleShouldBelievePeriodsReflectionSuicideNotesDon't BelieveThoughtfulSuicidalSuicide Note Author:Wendy O. Williams
“I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.” PeopleThinkingNaturalWorryPlanetsPeriodsResourcesSuicideJazzBunchInsaneMidstNatural ResourcesUsing Resources Author:Sonny Rollins