What pays for all this?""Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition. — Margaret Atwood
I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.
— Heather Day Gilbert
The most happy ought to wish for death.
— Seneca The Younger
I wish the death of one could bring back another.
— Alyse M. Gardner
I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.
— Muqtada Al Sadr
Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.
— Stephen King
Never wish the death of anyone or you will lose your goodness inside you!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I wish to go on living even after my death.
— Anne Frank
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.
— Lorenzo De' Medici
A death wish is not the same as a willingness to die.
— Ian Caldwell
I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.
— Colleen Hoover
If I Could Read The Last Page of My Life ...
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
You guys have a death list?" Ronan broke in. "That is fucking dark. Am I on it?" "Some days, I wish," Blue said.
— Maggie Stiefvater
The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.
— Bob Newhart
If you have few days to live your life, what will be your passion for last days?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I wish for today and dream of yesterday. If the gods should hold me in their favor, then I shall hope for tomorrow.
— Nadege Richards
I'm beginning to wish I'd had you deported after the first murder! Death seems to follow you around like the plague.
— Steve Robinson
This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.
— Richard Siken
Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. — Fred G. Gosman
Is our life not exciting enough? Or do the lot of you just have some kind of death wish? — Julie Kagawa
The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change? — William Badke
Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else. — Audre Lorde
The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die. — Courtney Love
It's not a damn death wish. I just know how much my pain is worth. — Devon Monk
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. — Ayn Rand
I don't know which I should fear more ... death or life. I wish I could be done with fear. — Ursula K. Le Guin
If Death could grant you a wish, you would use it for someone else? Trade your happiness for someone else's? — Robin LaFevers
I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that. — The Notorious B.I.G.
No matter how much you love someone, time heals your pain and your death wish. — Parul Wadhwa
Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first, Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death) — D.J. MacHale
If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes. — Ozzy Osbourne
If there was no death, everyone would wish for it. — Sadegh Hedayat
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. — Christian Furchtegott Gellert
They say when you meet somebody that looks just like you, you die. — P. Wish
Only one wish I have, and that is to die a happy man. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett
You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did. — Mark Z. Danielewski
I can just imagine the recruiting poster. 'Ghost whisperers wanted: no experience necessary. Death wish and masochistic tendencies a must. — Mary Lindsey
Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot. — Sophocles
If the police don't defend us, maybe we ought to do it ourselves. — Paul Kersey
If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest. — Philip Plait
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines. — Tom Robbins
Write your dreams down, toss them into the sea, and make a wish, Isabel. Life is too short to live with regrets, own today as if it was your last. — A.M. Willard
That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. — Samuel Johnson
Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death. — Stanislaw Leszczynski
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. — Sophocles
No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose. — Stacey Kade
She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4. — Mark Millar
I wish he had let you all die — Madeline Miller
He was dimly aware that if you wish to remain a human being under Fascism, there is an easier option than survival death. — Vasily Grossman
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for! — Marcus Valerius Martial
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day. — Martial
Converge all thoughts on Breath. Breathe in and breathe out and wish 'Let not Death claim me.' You will vanquish Death. — Sanjay Bahadur
One day I wish to die, but today, I wish to live. — Peprah Boasiako
Jesus, you've got a death wish.""Right now I have a bathroom-and-sleep-somewhere safe wish, kid. — Lilith Saintcrow
Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady ... should so earnestly wish for death, as well? — Alan Brennert
It is always a matter, my darling,Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I wished you before, but harder. — Richard Wilbur
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit. — Regina O'Melveny
I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other. — Ava Gardner
It is the act of a coward to wish for death. — Ovid
I wish I could read a couple of thousand words a day. Words written by someone else for a change! — A. Louise Robertson
When you get to heaven, you will wish you were in hell. — Marilyn Manson
I've been accused of having a death wish but I think it's life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever. — Tennessee Williams
It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it. — Philip Sidney
We wish you a happy and satisfying death. Welcome to the Other World. — Ofir Touche Gafla
Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.' — Steven Wright
Do now what you wish to have done when your moment comes to die. — St. Angela Merici
In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office — Harold S. Kushner
I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death. — Sandra Cisneros
Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart. — Simon Armitage
I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead.[Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero
My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity. — William Shakespeare
I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake. — Maria Theresa
What?" I ask."I'm developing a theory."
"And it is?"
She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish. — Veronica Roth
Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin) Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up here and have you freeze me. (Kish) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone. — Tim Kreider
Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was. — Garth Nix
I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death. — James May
If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family. — Etgar Keret
Life is about making mistakes. Death is about wishing you made more. — Jennifer Aniston
Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. — Huey Newton
We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun. — Edward Young
Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death. — Uesugi Kenshin
