Judith McNaught Quotes

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

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)

Hell is life drying up.

My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing

I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

I'd just as soon freeze to death.

Want is misery.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

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.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I have no mouth, and I must scream.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.