Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

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

I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.

It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all my life, and seen it's most faithful worshippers crumble in the end, screaming just to live, as if all the dark veils and the lillies and the smell of candles, and grandiose promises of the grave meant nothing. I knew that. But I always wished I was dead. It was a way to go on living

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

I like death. I'm a big fan of it.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

I don't want to live beyond the age of 75. That would be a good point to bow out. I don't want to go on for ever.

I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

I want nothing but death.

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.