“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”

“I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

“Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.”

Shams-i Tabrizi (1185–1248) 1185-1248, spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi.

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“And I may add that it taught me something about the limitations of the small... orthodox scientist who won't recognize as knowledge, or as reality, any information that doesn't fit into the already existent science.”

Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) American psychologist

“That man lives badly who does not know how to die well.”

Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist

“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

“The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them; or as the Italian proverb runs, "The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger."”

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright

“I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

“I am going to die. The person who succeeds me also would die. But elections, you won't have.”

Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) Former dictator of the republic of Chile