Top 82 I Wish I Were Dead Quotes
#1. I wish ... I wish I were dead ... "
"And what use would that be to anyone?
J.K. Rowling
#2. Every night, no matter what has happened during the day, no matter if I am torn and bloodied or so bone-tired I wish I were dead, I look up at the stars and I give each star a brother's name or a sister's face. I will not sleep until I remember every one. The stars will burn out before I forget.
Cassandra Clare
#3. The best thing about being dead is you no longer have to say 'I wish I were dead.'
The best thing about being alive is that you can still say 'I wish I were dead'
Ivor Cutler
#4. And I'm so angry I wish I were dead.
Jonah
#5. I don't want to die, but at the same time, I wish I were dead.
Abi Ketner
#6. It makes it hard to be alive, some days. A lot of times I wish I were dead, I truly do, just to make the pain stop.
E. Lockhart
#7. I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.
L.M. Montgomery
#8. I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#9. Whoever said white men had little dicks was dead ass wrong.
Mz. Lady P
#11. I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.
Audrey Niffenegger
#12. How embarrassing would that be to be found dead, naked in your bathroom, in a pile of Honey Dust?
Deanna Chase
#13. It was nothing compared to his awe as he watched her de-feather the dead fowl like a trained expert,
Marissa Meyer
#14. She had taken her vows and then they had taken her, and the forces amassed against her were greater than love, greater than obligation. They were elemental, heavy as a dead planet.
Haven Kimmel
#15. There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.
Jamie Smith
#16. So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.
Geraldine Brooks
#17. I can't understand
why dark northern soldiers
and light ones
are seperated into different brigades.
The dead are all buried together
in hasty mass graves,
bones touching.
Margarita Engle
#18. Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.
Jay-Z
#19. Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.
Aesop
#20. They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That's my motto.
Joe R. Lansdale
#22. From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.
Eric Burdon
#23. Well, how did you die, then?" the old man finally asked.
"Die?" Matthew threw back. "Are you crazy? I'm not dead. I'm just very late.
J. Tonzelli
#24. I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we lived in now, the world we were creating, that world would be better. But I didn't say it, because I wasn't sure it was true.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#25. A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.
Davy Crockett
#26. Word on the streets of Chicago in 1963 was that if Chuck Nicoletti got a contract with your name on it, you were already dead-- you just didn't know it yet.
Richard Belzer And David Wayne
#27. You imagine you can see me, Mother? All you could ever see was your own face in a mirror."
"Who am I, Mother? I'm not you. That's why you wish I were dead. You can't shape me anymore.
Janet Fitch
#28. I wish I was dead, or that it were tomorrow night," groaned Phil.
"If you live long enough both wishes will come true," said Anne calmly.
L.M. Montgomery
#29. It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.
James Thurber
#30. No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces.
Victoria Aveyard
#31. My foes have missed their mark in this shooting at me: I am not the man: I wish that they themselves be guiltless. If all the fornicators and adulterers in England were hanged up by the neck till they be dead, John Bunyan, the object of their envy, would be still alive and well.
John Bunyan
#32. Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
Saul Bellow
#33. I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.
Suzanne Collins
#34. Are you mad? (Artemis)
Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. Oh, you have no idea how crazy I can be. Get us in or you'll wish you were dead. -Tom Sterns Chaysing Memories
Jalpa Williby
#36. God, do I hate my little fat tits. You ever pinch your little meat tits and wish you were dead? You ever just stand naked in the mirror. "You little fat-titted mediocre failure!" You ever do that for 3 hours on New Year's Eve.
Jim Norton
#37. At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.
David Walton
#38. 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
#39. I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#40. I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.
Well, there's no good response to that. I can hardly dispute it since I was walking around with a syringe to kill Peeta when I found them. Do I really want him dead? What I want ... what I want is to have him back.
Suzanne Collins
#41. We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.
Clive Barker
#42. Emotions are destructive, Ms. Dillinger. One of two things will happen to you. You will either be hurt and wish you were dead, or you will end up dead."
Katie stopped in front of the next cooler and checked inside. "I'm human. What am I supposed to do? Just ... be?"
"Welcome to the world.
Mary Abshire
#43. Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.
Mark Twain
#44. 'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.
John Irving
#45. I think Alice Miller's Drama of the Gifted Child is one of the books read by nearly every therapist. Everyone's jaw drops when they read Miller's dead-on description of why we became therapists. (...) I wish more people were familiar with her work.
Ryan Howes
#46. A nations path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and that militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.
Fareed Zakaria
#47. His master plan was already dead, as his master plans usually were.
John Le Carre
#48. Say nothing but good of the dead.
Solon
#49. I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
Davy Crockett
#50. Get you dead ass out of the sarcophagus and follow along," Tern muttered. "And no yelling for guards, and no continuing forward when we stop and then stomping all over us and crushing our spines and skulls under your undead feet because we didn't explicitly tell you not to do that.
Patrick Weekes
#51. As for him "feeling dead", that's probably just a consequence of him being gone from your life for so long. In some sense he no longer feels real to you.
Paula Hawkins
#52. Sometimes she wondered if she only loved him when it was cold, in the middle of winter when everything was dead. -
Brit Bennett
#53. Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the dead with my eyes
Francisco De Quevedo
#54. A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all right. you've made it past Dead Man's Curve and you're out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.
Haruki Murakami
#55. Then I should be dead really soon, because you're stressing me out.
Courtney Summers
#56. With the Cauldron, you could do other things than raise the dead. You could destroy the wall.
Sarah J. Maas
#59. The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.
Dean Koontz
#60. These composers," Captain Nemo answered me, "are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and
Jules Verne
#61. My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
Tayari Jones
#62. There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.
Mira Grant
#63. But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
Walter Raleigh
#64. His quant band was gone, he noticed: he wouldn't be tracking his steps, his blood oxygen, heart rate, local EF field activity, or the five other things it automagically quantified and uploaded and shared. Digitally, he would actually appear dead.
Warren Ellis
#65. Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you but that's alright, when they put you in that box (after your dead), they're going to put dirt on you some more, so that's okay - GO, don't be afraid, have NO FEAR.
Tyler Perry
#66. We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#67. It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days) acted as digestive cells, retained their role to absorb the dead or weakened parts of the organism as much as different foreign intruders.
Elie Metchnikoff
#68. Fun, fun, fun, got you, got you, and got you again! Here, you're dead, here, I broke your forepaw, here, your blood runs out! Got you, got you, got you!
Robin Hobb
#69. And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.
Robert W. Service
#70. 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies.
Fede Alvarez
#71. The Salton Sea is a huge dead lake south of Palm Springs. There's a town there that's the asshole of the armpit of the world. You'd fit right in.
Neal Shusterman
#72. We can all talk to the dead. It's getting them to talk back that's the hard part."2
Bruce M. Hood
#73. How slowly life moves when you're dead. Another day, another hour, another night in bed. I want to live awake. I've been sleeping. Sleepwalking.
Pearl Abraham
#74. Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
Oscar Wilde
#76. I focused very hard on the dead geranium in his line of vision. I thought if I could make it bloom he would have his answer. In my heaven it bloomed. In my heaven geranium petals swirled in eddies up to my waist. On Earth nothing happened ... I stood alone in a sea of bright petals.
Alice Sebold
#77. That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.
Stephen King
#78. Drink the sun's warmth and the moon's icy glitter, and taste that which the dead and the yet-to-be-born cannot: the potency of this world.
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#79. I feel as if I had been born dead under
American bombardment.
Stefan Bolea
#80. Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
William Allingham
#81. Were faulty embalming and premature decay a dead hypochondriac's worst fears?
E.V. Iverson
#82. When one's dead, one's dead ... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?
Tove Jansson
