Quotes by Wish To Die I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter. Ai Qing wish-to-die joy morning We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life. Dalai Lama wish-to-die attachment death I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die! David Livingstone wish-to-die heart son In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die! David Livingstone missions wish-to-die missionary Without music I should wish to die. Edna St. Vincent Millay wish-to-die music should TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if not for hasty interventions by loved ones. Or Fate. Three people, with nothing at all in common except age, proximity, and a wish to die. Three tapestries, tattered at the edges and come unwoven to reveal a single mutual thread. Ellen Hopkins wish-to-die fate cutting A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. Franz Kafka wish-to-die understanding literature 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 wish-to-die expectations home I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the grave rather than live, as I fear I do, a trouble to everyone.... Sometimes I could not sleep and have groaned and cried till midnight. Harriet Beecher Stowe wish-to-die remembrance sleep Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god. Jean-Jacques Rousseau wish-to-die pain jesus And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, John Milton wish-to-die kings lying Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there. Joyce Carol Oates wish-to-die suicidal tone TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING. Karl A. Menninger wish-to-die giving life It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ. Luigi Orione wish-to-die tree jesus I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me. Mahatma Gandhi wish-to-die purity men I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. Marcus Tullius Cicero wish-to-die care death I wish to die painting. Paul Cezanne wish-to-die painting life It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a result of inadvertently sucking my brains out through my ear while trying to untwist the vacuum hose. Paula Poundstone wish-to-die unique brain I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor. Pope Pius X wish-to-die born poor Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot. Sophocles wickedness wish-to-die evil 12»