“Well tonight I'm gonna live for today, so come along for the ride,
I hope I'm old before I die.”
Robbie Williams (1974) British singer and entertainer
Old Before I Die
Life Thru a Lens (1997)
“Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.”
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXI: On meeting death cheerfully, Line 2.
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Andy Goldsworthy (1956) British sculptor and photographer
"Searching for the window into nature's soul" http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues97/feb97/golds.html Smithsonian magazine (February 1997)
“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons
Source: Of Love and Other Demons
“I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)”
John Newton (1725–1807) Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer
Laura Nyro (1947–1997) American musician and songwriter
"And When I Die"
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“Leave well — even 'pretty well' — alone: that is what I learn as I get old.”
Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English poet and writer
As quoted in Fitzgerald to His Friends: Selected Letters of Edward FitzGerald (1979) edited by Alethea Hayter, p. 178.
“The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.”
One of Ours (1922), Bk. II, Ch. 6
