Wished I Was Dead Quotes

#1. I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

J.D. Salinger

#2. I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.

Mark Twain

#3. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die;

Mark Twain

#4. Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead.

Denise Grover Swank

#5. He was alive and wished that he was dead, but not being dead, he was scared that he might die.

Avi

#6. Then Mr. Norrell roused himself and took down five or six books in a great hurry and opened them up - presumably searching out those passages which were full of advice for magicians who wished to awaken dead young ladies.

Susanna Clarke

#7. Michel and Annette Muller's mother, snatched from her children at Beaune-la-Rolande, died at Auschwitz. And while it was the Nazis who wished her dead, it was the French who put her in harm's way.

Laurence Rees

#8. She stood on the pile of rubble, her sword held high in such a way that it gleamed in the damp morning. She looked bold and fierce - unlike the science geek who'd been his best friend for years.

Carrie Ryan

#9. Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves.

MacDonald Harris

#10. He was impoverished in every way that meant something to him. However, he did have his health. But that only made him alive when he wished he was dead.

Sarah Noffke

#11. Where would a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. If there were no forest, he would make a forest. And if he wished to hide a dead leaf, he would make a dead forest.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

Ernst Toller

#13. You Have the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams!

Tae Yun Kim

#14. I am hated by many, especially comrade Pang Dehuai, his hatred is so intense that he wished me dead. My policy with Pang Dehuai is such: You don't touch me, I don't touch you; You touch me,
I touch you. Even though we were once like brothers, it doesn't change a thing.

Mao Zedong

#15. There was a hell for blasphemers. There was a hell for disputers of rightful authority. There were a number of hells for liars. There was probably a hell for little boys who wished their grandmothers were dead. There were more than enough hells to go around.

Terry Pratchett

#16. Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. Why did things have to be so complicated with human beings? ... Yet if we were not what we were, creatures with at least the awareness of purpose and honor, what would we be? Empty knights in armor, seeming so strong on the outside, yet hollow inside?

Piers Anthony

#18. Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.

Arnold Rothstein

#19. It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

Sean Kingston

#20. Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were dead, then went down the hall and into his ordeal.

John Fowles

#21. At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

Albert Camus

#22. It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

Gillian Flynn

#23. These were the moments I wished I were dead, when I was too weak to do anything about it. It was nature's cruel irony, stringing me along.

Pepper Winters

#24. Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Germaine Greer

#25. [Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.

Cassandra Clare

#26. I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

Mark Twain

#27. In my confused state I wondered if I had not died and gone to hell. And if this was the case, I wished that I had been allowed more opportunities to sin, for this seemed a rather excessive judgement on what had been a frankly dull and blameless life. But I was not dead. I could see that now.

Chris Priestley

#28. Kill me now."
"Nonsense. Dead, you will provide no relief from the interminable boredom."
Everyone needed a purpose in life. Kaylin, however, wished fervently for a better one at this moment.

Michelle Sagara West

#29. That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the
good old days when we wished we were dead.

Samuel Beckett

#30. I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious ... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Thomas Huxley