Longing For Death Quotes

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  • I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.

    Kind   Remember   Longing  
    C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

    People   Want   Longing  
    "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.
  • The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

    Sympathy   Death   Men  
  • I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.

  • I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

    Philippa Gregory (2004). “The Queen's Fool: A Novel”, p.337, Simon and Schuster
  • Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

    Art   Strong   Passion  
    "Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.
  • The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

    Order   Life Is   Longing  
    Milan Kundera (1977). “The farewell party”, Viking Pr
  • Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

    Art   Passion   Mean  
  • At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

    Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.336, Transaction Publishers
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