“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”
Variant: There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“"There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die" is a motto of the Mahatmas.”
Collected Writings, vol. IV, p. 603 (October 1889) http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v4/y1883_092.htm
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Jean De La Fontaine
(1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Plutôt souffrir que mourir,
C'est la devise des hommes.
Book I (1668), fable 16.
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Variant: Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
“Live or die, a man and a woman need love.”
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Legend
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 6
Context: Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. it is far better to have tasted love before dying than to die alone.
John McCain
(1936–2018) politician from the United States
Letter of advice to British diplomat Tom Fletcher's son. https://twitter.com/TFletcher/status/1033597850729570304
2000s, 2008
“A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole life of the man who thought it.”
Source: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 4 : Operation of the Law of Thought, p. 75
Context: A thought has no size in the physical sense but is vast as compared to the physical acts and objects into which it is later precipitated. The power of a thought is enormous and superior to all the successive physical acts, objects, and events that body forth its energy. A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole life of the man who thought it.
“From birth to death, love is the motto of every living being.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo
(1996) Congolese author
“Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.”
Bono
(1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
"Crumbs from Your Table"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)