Shneidman Quotes

#1. If you want people to listen to you, then be willing to listen to them.

Sharon Gannon

#2. The scattered rosebushes, glorious by day, revealed themselves by night an awkward collection of lonely, bony old ladies.

Kate Morton

#3. Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.

Edwin S. Shneidman

#4. Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their talk than he would learn in a week of school.

John Holt

#5. Each suicidal drama occurs in the mind of a unique individual.

Edwin S. Shneidman

#6. Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.

Myrtle Reed

#7. I shuttered from hairdo to shoe-sole

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. There's no spirit or soul. I will be dead. Get that through your thick head. I'll be dead. And I live, in quotation marks, in my children, in my DNA, in my books, in my reputation. It's as simple as that.

Edwin S. Shneidman

#9. The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

James Baldwin

#10. Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

Miguel Syjuco

#11. Death
some form of termination
is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

Edwin S. Shneidman

#12. I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They'll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition.

Nathan Sawaya

#13. I knew an old lady in the Highlands once, who said the lines in your hand don't predict your life; they reflect it.

Diana Gabaldon

#14. I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.

Robin McKinley

#15. All I want is to enter my house justified,

Sam Peckinpah

#16. I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.

Lil' Wayne

#17. Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have ... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.

Edwin S. Shneidman