Tony Hancock famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

He ended up on his own. I thought, he's got rid of everybody else, he's going to get rid of himself and he did." "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.
-- Tony Hancock

#Suicidal
Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That's the bitterest blow of all.
-- Tony Hancock

#Blow #Mourn #Behinds
I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.
-- Tony Hancock

#Thinking #Gains
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
-- Tony Hancock

#Two #Ingredients #Comedy
We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.
-- Tony Hancock

#Thinking #Trying #Certain

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
I've got a long history of suicid in my family; the good news is it skips a generation, so, if I'm lucky, my kids will kill themselves.
By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.
In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Tony Hancock famous quotes

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