Wanting To Die Quotes - Page 6

• I'm a coward, I didn't want to die.

  Patty Hearst

  Coward, Want, Dies

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• I don't want to die for a few pictures. I want to live for every sunrise I can clap my eyes on; I want to see my family get older; I want to see the world try and get a bit more peaceful and understanding, which unfortunately I don't think I'll ever see.

  Don McCullin

  Eye, Thinking, Understanding

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• If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous.

  Robin Williams

  Mistake, America, Medical Bills

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• I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

  Gloria Steinem

  Want, More Time, Knows

  "Gloria Steinem Shares What She Learned 'On The Road'". "All Things Considered" with Ina Jaffe, www.npr.org. December 2, 2015.

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• I grew up in the church, and so I feel that God gave me certain things to do, and I'm lucky enough to kind of have figured those things out. I just don't want to die not having tried to help somebody else with what I know.

  James McBride

  Church, Lucky, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Writing, Missing

  "Discworld's Terry Pratchett On Death And Deciding". Interview With Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 11, 2011.

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• Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!

  George Harrison

  Dying, Want, Causes

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• You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.

  Richard Siken

  Love You, Play, Want

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• I want to die consciously, without fear, and without anger. Three things. I see my friends dying with fear and anger and it's terrible. My grandmother kept her clothes ready for 40 years for her funeral. She lived to 103! But she kept the clothes in a cupboard. As the styles changed, she changed the clothes! I think if I start now with my funeral, it's good.

  Marina Abramovic

  Grandmother, Thinking, Funeral

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't want to die leaving the world as it is right now.

  Tillie Olsen

  Leaving, World, Want

  Source: progressive.org

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• I will do my duty no matter what the price, I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice. Oh, and I don't want to die for you, but if dying is asked of me, I'll bear that cross of honor cause freedom don't come free.

  Toby Keith

  Sacrifice, Honor, Dying

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• There's that really scary moment when you premiere music that no one's heard. It's the best and the worst moment. You're so scared. If it goes down well, then it's the best ever, but before you do it you want to die.

  Christian Karlsson

  Scary, Scared, Moments

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? The only reason I fought so hard to stay alive in China was because I didn't want to die for nothing. Today, I can die for something. My way, my choice.

  Jack Bauer

  Differences, Choices, Dying

  "24/ Day 6: 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m". January 2007.

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• I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."

  Katy Butler

  Thinking, Doctors, Self

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.

  Katy Butler

  Machines, Want, Dies

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.

  Katy Butler

  Home, People, Three

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however we're built, as we get into these years, some inner part of you does begin to accept the fact that you're heading towards the end, and there's a peace that comes with that.

  Frank Langella

  Mean, Years, Wish

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

  Frank Herbert

  Want, Should, Company

  "God Emperor of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1981.

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• That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.

  Nina Simone

  Effort, Dying, Aversion

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• Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

  Keith Richards

  Want, Young, Dies

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• The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

  N. T. Wright

  Book, Want, Live By

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• When Ma died, I didn't know how to go on, either. I don't know how. I don't feel the same know, not exactly. Now that I see that one day comes after another and you get through them one measure at a time. But I'd like to go, not like Fonda Nye, I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust.

  Karen Hesse

  Dust, Going Away, One Day

  Karen Hesse (1997). “Out of the Dust”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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