The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of ag...gression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything... that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 de...ath wish is our only real tragedy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yes. It's May 20th and the leaves,... green, green, wearing their masks and speaking, calling out their Sapphic loves, are here--here--here-- calling out their death wish: "A Annenne, come to us."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Polonius. My lord, I will take my leave of you. Hamlet. You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will not more willingly... part withal--except my life, except my life, except my life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what ...superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... I want to live and be happy. I believe that we cannot be one or the other by pushing the absurd to all its consequences. I am ...like everyone. To feel liberated, I sometimes wish death on my loved ones, I covet the wives forbidden to me by the laws of family and friendship. To be logical, I should then kill or possess. But I judge that these vague ideas are unimportant. I everyone tried to put them to reality, we could neither live nor be happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mis...hap betide me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »