Longing For Death Quotes

• The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

  Lucan

  Sympathy, Death, Men

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Kind, Remember, Longing

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Rejection, Darkness, Despair

  Philippa Gregory (2004). “The Queen's Fool: A Novel”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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

  Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

  Desire, Longing, Loses

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• The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

  Milan Kundera

  Order, Life Is, Longing

  Milan Kundera (1977). “The farewell party”, Viking Pr

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• 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

  Death, Suicide, Children

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

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• 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.

  Milan Kundera

  Art, Strong, Passion

  "Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

  Milan Kundera

  Art, Passion, Mean

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• 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.

  Polly Toynbee

  People, Want, Longing

  "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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