Biology Quote by Katherine Parkinson

I wasn't a kid who wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a doctor. I was kind of morbid. I was really…

— Jennifer Egan

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

— Jerry Kramer

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

— Peter O'Toole

I did get to shadow some amazing brain surgeons, a female brain surgeon in Toronto, another surgeon in London. And then we had a…

— Rachel McAdams

I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the…

— Doris Lessing

My total sellout to LSD, marijuana, and hashish, and to sex with virtually any attractive man, landed me in the hospital for four months.…

— Susan Atkins

One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a…

— Pattie Mallette

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't…

— Brigitte Bardot

I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws. I held…

— Janet Fitch

You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I…

— Dennis Hopper

Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.

— Jeff Lindsay

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

— Ryan White