“I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
“I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.”
Source: Richard III
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“I have cast fire upon the world — and behold, I guard it until it is ablaze.”
Thomas the Apostle Apostle of Jesus Christ
10; as quoted in Studies in the Gospel of Thomas (1960) by Robert McLachlan Wilson http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/thomas/gospelthomas10.html <br class="br">Variant translations: <br class="br">I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am watching over it until it blazes. <br class="br">As translated by Bentley Layton <br class="br">Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
What Must We Do To Be Saved? (1880) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38801/38801-h/38801-h.htm Section XI, "What Do You Propose?" <br class="br">Context: I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful.<br>Upon that rock I stand.<br>That he will not torture the forgiving.<br>Upon that rock I stand.<br>That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star, in which honesty is a crime.<br>Upon that rock I stand.<br>The honest man, the good woman, the happy child, have nothing to fear, either in this world or the world to come.<br>Upon that rock I stand.
“I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes.”
Jesus (-7–30 BC) Jewish preacher and religious leader, central figure of Christianity
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Gnostic Gospels, Gospel of Thomas (c. 2nd century AD manuscript)
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Enfim acabarei a vida e verão todos que fui tão afeiçoado à minha Pátria que não só me contentei de morrer nela, mas com ela.
Letter to Don Francisco de Almeyda, 1579; written after "the disaster of Alcácer-Kebir when the mad King Sebastião's mammoth invasion of Morocco ended in his death and the destruction or enslavement of all but one hundred of his army of over 20,000. [Camões] died on 10 June 1580, just before the throne passed to Philip II of Spain", as reported by Landeg White in The Lusiads (Oxford World's Classics, 2001), p. x; quoted as Camões' last words in The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. VIII (January, 1843), No. 3, "Luis de Camoëns", p. 115.
Letters
“I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.”
William Boyd book Any Human Heart
Source: Any Human Heart
José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
Yo soy un hombre sincero<br>De donde crece la palma<br>Y antes de morirme quiero<br>Echar mis versos del alma. <br class="br">I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273, ISBN 0142437042 <br class="br">Variant translations: <br class="br">A sincere man am I<br>From the land where palm trees grow,<br>And I want before I die<br>My soul's verses to bestow. <br class="br"> "A Sincere Man Am I" http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/46409-Jose-Marti-A-Sincere-Man-Am-I---Verse-I-, as translated by Manuel A. Tellechea, in Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses (1997) ISBN 1558852042 <br class="br">I am a sincere man<br>from where the palm tree grows,<br> and before I die I wish<br>to pour forth the verses from my soul. <br class="br">Simple Verses (1891)