Top 100 Quotes About Death Wish

#1. What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Mario Puzo

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#2. Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

Garth Nix

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#3. Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.

Fred G. Gosman

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#4. I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much ... so, so much.

Jacqueline Woodson

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#5. On your death bed, you will not wish you had been more comfortable, or that you had found an even easier, softer pleasure zone to hide out in. You will wish you had ventured out more. That you had spoken up more. Tried some things. Reinvented yourself one more time.

Steve Chandler

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#6. I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

Rachel McAdams

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#7. She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.

Mark Millar

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#8. It's not a damn death wish. I just know how much my pain is worth.

Devon Monk

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#9. Bloody hell, grandsire," were Bones's first words as he approached. "You've left behind a wreckage of burned bodies, dead vampires, missing persons, threatened Guardians, and video evidence of our race's existence. Then you go on holiday. You really do have a death wish

Jeaniene Frost

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#10. But there is something delusional nonetheless in his optimistic certainty that human beings will wish to choose altruistic values without invoking transcendent principles. They may do so; but they may also wish to build death camps, and may very well choose to do that instead. For

David Bentley Hart

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#11. I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

John Hodgman

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#12. She began to wish he would die; yet she did not want him to die because then his salary would cease. And this irritated her against him still more. She considered herself dreadfully unhappy just because not even his death could save her,

Leo Tolstoy

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#13. It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised.

Dan Groat

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#14. I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .

Ali Shariati

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#15. If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Alexander Smith

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#16. The natural beauty of the earth made hard for me to consider the pathetic struggle of humans on the face of it. The great release of death, I thought, was not from the bondage to our lovely planet- who could ever wish to leave this extraordinary place?- but from one another.

Valerie Martin

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#17. Saving You
The darkness takes him over,
the sickness pulls him in;
his eyes - a blown out candle,
I wish to go with him.
Sometimes I see a flicker
a light that shone from them;
I hold him to me tightly,
before he's gone again.

Lang Leav

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#18. You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

Martial

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#19. Kylie looked up towards the sky. Sometimes I just wish Heaven wasn't so far away.

C.C. Hunter

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#20. Then, Holden, the little Fang gang kid, came out of nowhere with an apparent death wish. He raced directly toward the maniac with the gun shrieking something that sounded like I am Starfishhh!

James Patterson

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

Margaret Atwood

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#22. Here is the story of how I died. I wish it were a glamorous story; sadly, there was little glamour in my death. The end for everyone is much the same, sad, lonely, and cold. Only, most people don't wake up again, I did. And I was hungry, so bloody hungry.

L.A. Kennedy

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#23. We must all die. There's nothing terrible about death. But to live on after death, a soul, earthbound, a vampire
you don't wish any such fate for your beloved.

Guy Endore

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#24. I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.

James May

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#25. If Death could grant you a wish, you would use it for someone else? Trade your happiness for someone else's?

Robin LaFevers

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#26. We are all going to die soon. Do you really wish to waste time being angry at me?"
"Yes. I remain an unrepentant optimist. If i see that I am about to die, or you, I will forgive you. But not until then, you bastard.

Sherry Thomas

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#27. Go mortals, sweat, pant, toil, range the lands and seas to pile up riches you cannot keep; glory that will not last. The life we lead is a sleep; whatever we do, dreams. Only death breaks the sleep and wakes us from dreaming. I wish I could have woken before this.

Francesco Petrarca

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#28. Give a man with a death wish a bottle of whisky and a loaded gun, you get a dead body. Give a martyr a quote from scripture and a pocket full of
prayers and you get a room full of corpses.

Kevis Hendrickson

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#29. I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jan Hus

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#30. Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady ... should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

Alan Brennert

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#31. The snarl didn't make Adam's too-handsome features less handsome, but it would probably have scared anyone else. Me? I think I have some kind of subliminal death wish because Adam's anger makes me go weak at the knees, and not in a terrified sort of way.

Patricia Briggs

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#32. The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.

James Stephens

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#33. Do now what you wish to have done when your moment comes to die.

St. Angela Merici

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#34. The flame of the inn is dim tonight,
Too many vacant chairs.
The sun has lost too much of its light,
Too many songs have taken flight,
Too many ghosts on the stairs.
Charon, here's to you as man against man,
I wish I could pick 'em the way you can!

Grantland Rice

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#35. Never wish the death of anyone or you will lose your goodness inside you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#36. I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.

Adolf Hitler

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#37. To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

Don DeLillo

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#38. Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

Paul Valery

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#39. Early laurels weigh like lead and of many of the boys whom I knew at Eton, I can say that their lives are over ... Once again romanticism with its death wish is to blame, for it lays an emphasis on childhood, on a fall from grace which is not compensated for by any doctrine of future redemption.

Cyril Connolly

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#40. For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

Robert Jordan

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#41. 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

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#42. They say when you meet somebody that looks just like you, you die.

P. Wish

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#43. He was lying there on his death bed, and he asked for her as his last wish.
She came with tears in her eyes. He held her hand and said with a smile," I wish I died daily", And then a flat line.

Nishikant

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#44. The liberals' present furor over the CIA's covert operations against al-Qaida suggests that they harbor a death wish not only for themselves but also for the whole country.

Bob Tyrrell

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#45. I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.

Lloyd Alexander

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#46. Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

Jodi Picoult

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#47. I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.

Anna Kavan

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#48. Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first, Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)

D.J. MacHale

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#49. Being killed for Allan's cause is a great honor achieved by only those who are the elite of the nation. We love this kind of death for Allah's cause as much as you like to live. We have nothing to fear for. It is something we wish for.

Osama Bin Laden

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#50. I wish I'd paid better attention. I didn't yet think of time as finite. I didn't fully appreciate the stories she told me until I became adult, and by then I had to make do with snippets pasted together, a film projected on the back of my mind.

Jessica Maria Tuccelli

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#51. If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.

Etgar Keret

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#52. I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.

Colleen Hoover

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#53. Along with Alec's blood, Simon could taste the metal of fear, the spark of pain, and the eager flame of something else, something he had tasted the first time he had drunk Jace's blood on the filthy metal floor of Valentine's ship. Maybe all Shadowhunters did have a death wish, after all.

Cassandra Clare

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#54. 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

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#55. I don't have a death wish. I'm just confused and trying to sort stuff out, trying to find a point to all of this. Life. It confuses the hell out of me. People, they confuse the hell out of me. Hell, I confuse the hell out of myself.

Jessica Sorensen

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#56. I begin to cry as my walls of my resolve break down. I don't know how long I can hold on. The pain is horrid and I curl into myself wrestling with a wish to die and a wish to live. Both have their perks. Only one will release me from this agony.

Celia Mcmahon

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#57. The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.

Courtney Love

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#58. 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

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#59. How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?

Marcel Proust

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#60. 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

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#61. I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.

Libba Bray

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#62. Jesus, you've got a death wish."
"Right now I have a bathroom-and-sleep-somewhere safe wish, kid.

Lilith Saintcrow

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#63. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead ... but you know what? It wouldn't change anything. All I can do now that they're dead is to go through the actions of living without really living, and hope it improves someday.

Rebecca McNutt

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#64. Love, whose month is ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair,
Playing in the wanton air:
Through the velvet leaves the wind,
All unseen can passage find;
That the lover, sick to death,
Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.

William Shakespeare

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#65. Death is the final stage of growth in this life. There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or the spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal. You may interpret this in any way that makes you comfortable.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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#66. Anyone in your family not a killer? (Syd)
After this I'm beginning to wonder if I don't have a serial mom. (Steele)
I wish. She should have beaten you to death with a turkey leg. (Tina)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#67. When you get to heaven, you will wish you were in hell.

Marilyn Manson

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#68. I wish I could read a couple of thousand words a day. Words written by someone else for a change!

A. Louise Robertson

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#69. 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

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#70. Where there is life, George, there is hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough to us all. I would hesitate to wish it hastened upon anyone.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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#71. I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.

Madeleine Thien

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#72. It is the fear of death
24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black
that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.

Lewis H. Lapham

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#73. When you begin to actively participate in the creation of your life, there is never an end, even in death, for physics tells us that nothing is ever created nor destroyed, merely transformed.

Stephen Richards

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#74. There are an incalculable number of things within me that I frantically wish to be emptied of, and despite my most earnest efforts to remove them, they remain. And it is Easter that reminds me that God empties out tombs.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#75. I mean even though we were going through our drama
I would never wish death on nobody, you know what I'm sayin'
Because there ain't no coming back from that

The Notorious B.I.G.

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#76. Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.

Genghis Khan

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#77. 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

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#78. Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

Sophocles

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#79. 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

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#80. I wish the death of one could bring back another.

Alyse M. Gardner

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#81. I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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#82. After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.

Annie Oakley

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#83. Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

Jenny Han

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#84. A hopeless exile from his native home, From death alone exempt - but cease to mourn; Let all combine to achieve his wish'd return; Neptune atoned, his wrath shall now refrain, Or thwart the synod of the gods in vain.

Homer

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#85. I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

Muqtada Al Sadr

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#86. 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

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#87. It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

Philip Sidney

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#88. There was a fine thing about that trout. I only wish I could have made a death mask of him. Not of his body though, but of his energy. I don't know if anyone would have understood his body. I put it in my creel.

Richard Brautigan

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#89. Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Sophocles

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#90. You have to imagine your own death. When your time comes, what will you regret not doing? What will you wish you had more time to do, and what will have seemed trivial? Think of what you fear losing - those are the things that matter most.

Jeff Goins

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#91. I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground
Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound.
Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death
With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath
Of discontent; or that these prayers be
For weariness of life, not love of thee.

Ben Jonson

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#92. Doona worry, I'll take care of you." He grasped her hand in his. "You're going to be all right."
Chloe's gaze drifted to Loa. "That a snake?"
Loa said, "She keeps death away."
Chloe blinked those big eyes up at him and whispered, "Wish that was the weirdest thing ... I've heard tonight.

Kresley Cole

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#93. Converge all thoughts on Breath. Breathe in and breathe out and wish 'Let not Death claim me.' You will vanquish Death.

Sanjay Bahadur

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#94. There is a ripeness of time for death,
regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for
another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another.

Thomas Jefferson

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#95. My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.

Neal Shusterman

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#96. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

Ayn Rand

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#97. Rows of books around me stand,
Fence me in on either hand;
Through that forest of dead words
I would hunt the living birds
So I write these lines for you
Who have felt the death-wish too,
All the wires are cut, my friends
Live beyond the severed ends.

Louis MacNeice

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#98. I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.

The Notorious B.I.G.

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#100. To the ones you love, It'll be hard to say goodbye after going through life and death with them, it will be hard to say see you later, you will always wish to be with them forever without saying goodbye.

Auliq Ice

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