Jonathan Swift Quotes

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

Death at times seems like a dark tunnel to be traveled, and the future seems bleak.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.

When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you know since they will die in their sleep, they will not feel the pain of death. Now if you cry aloud to wake a few of the lighter sleepers, making those unfortunate few suffer the agony of irrevocable death, do you think you are doing them a good turn?

I feel like dying when I'm helpless

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

It's over. We've all been sentenced to die.

The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world.

I sometimes think we deserve to die, we're all so goddamned stupid.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.