Loss of Will Quotes

The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.

I thought I was dead inside.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

It got to a point where I didn't care if I lived or I died.

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things - but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.

A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control of the water. A swimmer moves around willfully. An absorbed being has no will but the water's going. Any word or act is not really personal, but the way the water has of speaking or doing. As when you hear a voice coming out of a wall, and you know that it's not the wall talking, but someone inside, or perhaps someone outside echoing off the wall. Saints are like that. They've achieved the condition of a wall, or a door.

Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.

but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.