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“I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.”

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Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.

“Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.”

People Want Believe Kind Ends Lines Seeing Special Subjects Dying Painful Insight Revelations

Book:Dexter by Design

Source: Dexter by Design

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now — and we're going to try our hands at it.”

Source: Main Street

“I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.”

Want Said Soul Together Dying Scared Back Together

Book:My Name Is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake.”

Ifs Want Trying Firsts Long Care Hours Sleep Alive Dying Wake Up Awake

Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came in the affirmative." "I didn't know there was such a Fellow," Buttercup said. "Neither did I, in truth, but if He didn't exist, I didn't much want to either.”

Ifs Knows Want Said Answers Lord Dying Fellows Affection Permanent Affirmative Buttercup

Book:The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.”

Ifs Want Dying Lungs Hollowness

Book:The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel

Source: The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel

“* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting or writing. * to know that millions of others are unhappy and that life is a gentleman's agreement to grin and paint your face gay so others will feel they are silly to be unhappy, and try to catch the contagion of joy, while inside so many are dying of bitterness and unfulfillment.”

People Knows Want Feels Writing Trying Faces Life Is Joy Millions Pieces Dying Painting Gay Paint Silly Unhappy Gentleman Agreement Your Face Bitterness Contagion Unfulfillment

Author:Sylvia Plath

“Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started.”

Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel