Florence Nightingale Quotes

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.

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

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.

I envy the dead.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

My soul is dead.

Did I pray for death? I did one time. I wanted to die so badly. And I didn't want to die. I wanted to rest, you know. And I knew the only rest I would find is in death.

Life and hope must cease together.

Please don't set me free Death means a lot me

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

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart.

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.

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

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.

I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.

I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere... just take me there.

How many would die did not hope sustain them.