Death Wish Quotes

What pays for all this?"
"Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition. — Margaret Atwood

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all. — Ray Bradbury

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

It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory — Che Guevara

My first customer was a lunatic. My second had a death wish. — Karl Benz

On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did. — Mike Myers

Kylie looked up towards the sky. Sometimes I just wish Heaven wasn't so far away. — C.C. Hunter

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

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me. — Elizabeth I

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

The time when you wish if death was possible from a heartbreak — Kiran Joshi

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 wish ... I wish I were dead ... "
"And what use would that be to anyone? — J.K. Rowling

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