Death Wish Quotes

Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

~ Simon Armitage

The Bravest Thing I Ever Did Was Continuing My Life When I Wanted To Die.

~ Bunny Naidu

Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of two kingdoms, mother of two kings? My guts are torn from me, my family is carried off and removed from me. The young king [crown prince Henry, †1183] and the count of Britanny [prince Geoffrey, †1186] sleep in dust, and their most unhappy mother is compelled to be irremediably tormented by the memory of the dead. Two sons remain to my solace, who today survive to punish me, miserable and condemned. King Richard [the Lionheart] is held in chains [in captivity with Emperor Henry VI of Germany]. His brother, John, depletes his kingdom with iron [the sword] and lays it waste with fire. In all things the Lord has turned cruel to me and attacked me with the harshness of his hand. Truly his wrath battles against me: my sons fight amongst themselves, if it is a fight where where one is restrained in chains, the other, adding sorrow to sorrow, undertakes to usurp the kingdom of the exile by cruel tyranny. Good Jesus, who will grant that you protect me in hell and hide me until your fury passes, until the arrows which are in me cease, by which my whole spirit is sucked

~ Eleanor Of Aquitaine

The graveyard is the everlasting home of every man.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everyone’s mind has sort of a slum division—a flirtatious spot that doesn’t give a hoot about how grave a situation is but constantly endeavors to derail more earnest thoughts, almost like a death-wish backseat driver.

~ Pawan Mishra

We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you have few days to live your life, what will be your passion for last days?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life on earth is temporary. May we pursue peace and live in harmony with one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

At the end of life, nobody knows where the spirit goes.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose.

~ Stacey Kade

The dead only knows their world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Maybe my dissertation really had been as brilliant as he claimed, the truth was I remember almost nothing about it; the intellectual leaps I made when I was young were a distant memory to me, and now I was surrounded by a kind of aura, when really my only goal in life was to do a little reading and get in bed at four in the afternoon with a carton of cigarettes and a bottle; and yet, at the same time, I had to admit, I was going to die if I kept that up – I was going to die fast, unhappy and alone. And did I really want to die fast, unhappy and alone? In the end, only kind of.

~ Michel Houellebecq

Death breached the silence first. 'Mortals are always calling for me,' he said, 'Especially mortals whose suffering is very great, and especially mortals whose suffering is of their own making, and especially mortals who have never known suffering.

~ J. Aleksandr Wootton

What if I just want to die?Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life.

~ Megan Bostic

My father was a doctor,' she says, 'a very kind man. He died in the early '70s, relatively young.' She taps the cigarette packet on the table. 'Of lung cancer.''Oh.''But the thing about that is,' she says as she exhales, 'it doesn't take very long at all.

~ Anna Funder

I often think about this, that is, I imagine to myself that here is Vera, dead, totally motionless, lying on the table, in a coffin... and I too, of course can no longer live. But for some reason this gives me pleasure, a terrible amount of pleasure to imagine so the one I love: earlier I imagined grandmother and then my fiance in this manner, even my favorite animals, Sparky our cat with the fiery bursts of red on his gray-black fur.(Thirty-Three Abominations)

~ Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal