“It’s better to die than to live in the knowledge that you’ve done something that needs forgiveness.”

Quoted in Scott MacLeod, "South Africa: Extremes in Black and Whites" http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975037,00.html, Time, March 9, 1992, p. 38
Quoted in "The Mind of Black Africa" (1996) by Dickson A. Mungazi, p. 159

Roran, on the cause of the Varden
Inheritance (2011)

April 17, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 51.

Source: Women in Love (1920), Ch. 15

This is usually attributed to Emiliano Zapata, but sometimes to Aeschylus, who is credited with expressing similar sentiments in Prometheus Bound: "For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life".
Misattributed

Call to the Nation