Longing For Death Quotes:

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

- Lucan

topic: Sympathy, Death, Men, Inspirational Condolences, Suffering And Death

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

- C. S. Lewis

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

topic: Kind, Remember, Longing, Longing For Death

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

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

topic: Rejection, Darkness, Despair, Longing For Death, Constant Rejection

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

topic: Desire, Longing, Longing For Death

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

- Milan Kundera

topic: Order, Longing, Life Is, Disruption, Longing For Death

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

topic: Suicide, Children, Suicidal, Longing For Death

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

topic: Art, Strong, Mean, Longing For Death, Distaste

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

topic: Art, Mean, Passion, Extremism, Longing For Death

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

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

topic: People, Want, Longing, Right To Die, Longing For Death