Death Wish quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4. -- Mark Millar
  • What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish. -- Veronica Roth
  • 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
  • Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. -- Mario Puzo
  • Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else. -- Audre Lorde
  • The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it. -- Bob Newhart
  • You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. -- Huey Newton
  • Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines. -- Tom Robbins
  • The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die. -- Courtney Love
  • My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe. -- Faye Moskowitz
  • As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their families and their race. -- Revilo P. Oliver
  • 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
  • Do you have a death wish?" he asked. Will grinned at him. I'm just relying on your judgment," he replied. "I can't keep track of everything in my head. -- John Flanagan
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however we're built, as we get into these years, some inner part of you does begin to accept the fact that you're heading towards the end, and there's a peace that comes with that. -- Frank Langella
  • The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. -- Hannah Arendt
  • Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish. -- Eugene Ionesco
  • The most happy ought to wish for death. -- Seneca the Younger
  • I wish to go on living even after my death. -- Anne Frank
  • If there was no death, everyone would wish for it. -- Sadegh Hedayat
  • It is the act of a coward to wish for death. -- Ovid
  • I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death. -- Muqtada al Sadr
  • I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake. -- Maria Theresa
  • Try and blow my cake, just know that's a death wish. -- Big Sean
  • My first customer was a lunatic. My second had a death wish. -- Karl Benz
  • I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that. -- The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Never wish the death of someone or you will lose your goodness inside you! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
  • Jesus, you've got a death wish." "Right now I have a bathroom-and-sleep-somewhere safe wish, kid. -- Lilith Saintcrow
  • Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot. -- Sophocles
  • It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it. -- Philip Sidney
  • I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death. -- James May
  • It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. -- Ayn Rand
  • Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death) -- D. J. MacHale
  • Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. -- Fred G. Gosman
  • We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun. -- Edward Young
  • Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well~? -- Alan Brennert
  • This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish. -- Richard Siken
  • I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death. -- Sandra Cisneros
  • I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to. -- Bill Mollison
  • Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.' -- Steven Wright
  • Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death. -- Uesugi Kenshin
  • 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
  • On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did. -- Mike Myers
  • 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
  • My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me. -- Elizabeth I
  • People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late. -- Walter Kirn
  • 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
  • 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! -- Martial
  • Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin)Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up here and have you freeze me. (Kish)" -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin) Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up here and have you freeze me. (Kish) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me. -- Holly Black
  • Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life. -- Maurice Herzog
  • 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
  • For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across. -- Philippe Petit
  • 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
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share