John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

These have not the hope to die.

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 lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

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

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

it's just another way to die

Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

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

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

I'm dying always.

I can feel myself dying inside.

’While there is life, there’s hope,’ he cried; ‘Then why such haste?’ so groaned and died.

This whole country is a graveyard, and we are all constantly walking on the bones

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

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

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

Despair and die. The ghosts