Wanting To Die Quotes - Page 6

• As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

  Alan Ball

  Other Cultures, Want, Way

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• I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Thinking, Want, Overrated

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Bingo”, p.221, Bantam

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• I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.

  Dave Matthews

  Want, Wonder Of Life, Facts

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• I don't want to die without scars.

  Brad Pitt

  Want, Scar, Dies

  "Fictional character: Tylor Durden". "Fight Club", www.theguardian.com. 1999.

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

  Richard Siken

  Love You, Play, Want

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• The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Wish, Reason, First Time

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

  James Joyce

  Live Life, Long, Want

  James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.549, Oxford Paperbacks

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it.

  Eva Green

  Want, Not Worth It, Dies

  "Eva Green Speaks Out About Nipplegate". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. August 6, 2014.

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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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• 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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