George Carlin Quotes

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it," he said.

Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

My heart may be black but it was still capable of heart failure.

When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one being diabetes. I became a diabetic at 17 and went on this road of kind of self-destruction, eating-wise, until I was 40.

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

Black people are killing themselves with alcohol ... it is a scourge of our neighborhoods. It's a disease that feeds on our people.

I was born with good health and a strong body and spent years abusing them.

Even within the context of the alternative scene I was a part of, within punk and hardcore and the alt scene, there was a focus on self-destruction.

Those who have to struggle with addiction in their lives know the 'you only live once' mentality doesn't really work because you can only do that for so often before you're self-destructive.

It's not that I will die, but if I stop partying, it will lead to extreme complications in my wellbeing.

Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.

Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell.

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

Don't do drugs to be cool, do 'em because you hate yourself.