
“A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.”
Variant: If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.”
1960s, Cobo Center speech (1963)
“Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.”
Me & Rumi (2004)
As quoted in New Pathways In Psychology (1972) by Colin Wilson
1970s and later
“That man lives badly who does not know how to die well.”
On Tranquility of the Mind
“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
No. 191 (9 October 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“I am going to die. The person who succeeds me also would die. But elections, you won't have.”
Speech (17 June 1975), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1970s