Wanting To Die Quotes - Page 3

• I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me--the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.

  Frank Lentricchia

  Real, Eye, People

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• He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Doe, Want

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• Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

  Joe Louis

  Funny, Boxing, Heaven

  1965 In Sports Illustrated,'Scorecard',19 Jul.

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• In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Moving, Ideas, Development

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• If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Nfl, Done

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• You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hard Times, Choices, Barcelona

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• I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I don't want to die. I don't want Stephen to die. I'm looking for the scenario where we both get to live. Where we can continue this marvel that is love and discovery and trust.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Sacrifice, Epic

  Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.130, Penguin

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• When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

  Maurice Sendak

  House, Dying, Doe

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• God, I want to die in you.

  Katy Evans

  Want, I Want To Die, Dies

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• You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.

  Johnny Damon

  People, World, Want

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• I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love

  Michael Ondaatje

  Our Love, Want, Century

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Oct 12, 2012

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• The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Sweet, Hate

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.211, Penguin

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• O starry night, This is how I want to die

  Anne Sexton

  Night, Want, Dies

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say.

  Christopher Pike

  Hair, Want, Cry

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing

  Peter Fonda

  Writing, Acting, Want

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• Please, please. Don't cry like that. I'm going to go mad. I don't want to see you again. I need to see you again... I'm sick of it. Because as soon as we have to say goodbye... I want to die. (Ritsuka)

  Yun Kouga

  Goodbye, Sick, Mad

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• I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Reading, Want, Return

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston”

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• Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  Boots, Want, Keyboards

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• Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading, Bed, Done

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2566, Bantam

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• I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Spring, Long, Mind

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Awareness There is a dark place. A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words. I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die. But I can't. The darkness and silence go on forever. It is not a dream. I don't dream.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Dream, Eye, Dark

  Mary E. Pearson (2012). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox: Chapters 1-5”, p.6, Macmillan

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• I know some things--I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something--more than I could have said a few weeks ago.

  Veronica Roth

  Want, Week, Said

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• You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.

  Darren Shan

  Suicide, Dream, Regret

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• When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  War, Organization, Soldier

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• I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Long, Want, Minutes

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