Tim Minchin Quotes

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

This whole country is a graveyard, and we are all constantly walking on the bones

A piece of each of us died.

I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.

Wiped the cold dew-drops from his cheek And sought the mourner's side again. "Once more, dear lady, I must speak: Your last remaining son was slain Just at the closing of the fight; Twas he who sent me here to-night." "God knows," the man said afterward, "The fight itself was not so hard."

She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

Suicide kills two people.

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.