Wanting To Die Quotes

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  When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Death, Hilarious

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• Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

  Sophocles

  Evil, Pet, Want

  Electra 1007

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• I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Hurt, Girl Interrupted, Trying

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sleep, Wake Up, Want

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Suicide, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.

  Jo Nesbo

  Want, Persons, Dies

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• Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Growth, Ugly, Want

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• I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.

  Matthew Healy

  Thinking, Opposites, Bored

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• I don't have a problem with dying but I have a problem with what I'm going to die for. I don't want to die for no reason at all. If I'm going to die for something, I want it to be worthwhile.

  Sam Childers

  Dying, Problem, Reason

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.

  Jean Ingelow

  Depression, Suicide, Want

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• I hate myself, and I want to die

  Kurt Cobain

  Sad, Hate, Suicidal

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• I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

  Edith Piaf

  Thinking, Dying, Awful

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Death, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the slippery slope: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

  Peter Singer

  Doctors, Want, Able

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.89, Princeton University Press

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• It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way.

  GG Allin

  Way, Moments, That Moment

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• Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.68, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.

  Jenny Downham

  Mean, Choices, Saying Yes

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

  Richard Pryor

  Nice, Who I Am, Care

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• I don't know and I don't care anymore. I was supposed to have my way for once, just once in my life. I did everything right and I got nothing for it. I want to kill them all. no, better yet, I want to die. No, even bettter than that: I want to kill them all then die.

  Barry Lyga

  Care, Want, Way

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• Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.

  RuPaul

  Two, Ego, Balance

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• I want to die on my own terms.

  Brittany Maynard

  Want, Term, My Own

  "My right to death with dignity at 29" by Brittany Maynard, www.cnn.com. November 2, 2014.

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• I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it

  Jim Morrison

  Sleep, Smell, Missing

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• I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

  River Phoenix

  Car, Want, Waterfalls

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hate, Heart, Sleep

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.154, Penguin

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• I don't want to die but I ain't keen on living either

  Robbie Williams

  Want, Dies

  Song: Come and hold my hand

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