Wanting To Die Quotes - Page 7

• I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

  Sarah Kane

  Tired, Years, Mind

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.211, A&C Black

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• Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Real, Years

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.10, Anchor

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• The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

  Hermann Hesse

  World, Want, Dies

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

  B. B. King

  Heaven, Want, Dies

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Music is the only thing that you can share with a million million people and you don't lose, you gain. It helps you to get energy and to live long, because when your soul is very happy then you don't want to die.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  Long, People, Soul

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• When I was sick, I didn't want to die.
  When I race, I don't want to lose.
  Dying and losing, it's the same thing.

  Lance Armstrong

  Race, Sick, Dying

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• I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death

  Ivan Illich

  Life, Disease, Want

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• What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Men, Dying, Finals

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.8, Island Press

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• Because it's still a heartache. And nothing makes you want to die more than that.

  Lee Nichols

  Heartache, Want, Stills

  Lee Nichols (2011). “Betrayal”, p.47, A&C Black

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• There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die. I am dying.

  Brittany Maynard

  Suicide, Cancer, Suicidal

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• I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Two, Funny Graduation, Culture

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• I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.

  Whitney Houston

  Self, Want, Persons

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• Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

  Roald Dahl

  Want, Awful, Stomach

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• I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Love, Laughter, Lying

  Georgia Douglas Johnson, “I Want To Die While You Love Me”

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• I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.

  Hugo Chavez

  Want, Let Me, Please

  "Heart attack killed a suffering Hugo Chavez, head of Venezuela's presidential guard says" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. March 7, 2013.

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• I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Creative, Want, Done

  "Comedian Bob Monkhouse dies". news.bbc.co.uk. December 29, 2003.

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• I don't belong. Not here. Not now. I have to get back there. The bet was rigged, he made me believe. Now there's darkness in my soul. I want to die . . . again. But I choose to come back, why?

  Todd McFarlane

  Believe, Soul, Darkness

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• Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun."

  E. B. White

  Beautiful, Lying, Air

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• I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.

  Ricki Lake

  Baby, Dna, Want

  "Ricki Lake Delivers Maternal Health Awareness" by Eleanor Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.

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• My feeling is, personally, I want to die first... because I believe that when you die, your soul goes immediately up for judgment - and I don't want my wife up there first. No, the judgment will be horrendous.

  Bill Cosby

  Believe, Wife, Feelings

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• If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Together, Want

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

  Johnny Thunders

  People, Want, Reason

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• I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

  Frank O'Hara

  Winning, Thinking, Want

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.438, Univ of California Press

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• I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

  Elayne Boosler

  Thinking, Clothes, Want

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• I usually want to die or do nothing.

  Daul Kim

  Want, Dies

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