Isaac Marion Quotes

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

If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of me and there is not an alligator behind me and there is not a girl sitting at the edge eating a hot dog and if I believe that, then dying would be the only answer because then Death couldn't come and say Peachy to me anymore and after all she has a brother who believes in hope.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

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

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

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

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

I don’t know. We’ll all be dead.

I’m ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable.

Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?

Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

I think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But given the grimmest reality, I feel the grimmest facts are the real facts, the true facts: that you're born, you die, you suffer, it's to no purpose, and you're gone forever, ever, ever, and that's it.

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

Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.