Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Source: The Red Magician (1982), Chapter 9 (p. 137)
“You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin”
“There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.”
“I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.”
Spesso è da forte,
Più che il morire, il vivere.
Oreste, IV, 2; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440.
“The work we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”
1830s, Boswell's Life of Johnson (1832)
“I am not ready to die because it requires infinitely higher courage to live.”
[Naravane, Vishwanath S., Sarojini Naidu: An Introduction to Her Life, Work and Poetry, http://books.google.com/books?id=h6v8HsRUBucC&pg=PA133, 1 January 1996, Orient Blackswan, 978-81-250-0931-3, 133–]
“Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.”
On the snuff of a candle the night before he died; Raleigh's Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661
“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
