Source: A Farewell to Arms
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”
Caesar, Act II, scene ii.
Source: Julius Caesar (1599)
Courage and alertness
Source: The Teachings of Babaji, 5 July 1983.
“I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward.”
Said while being taken to his execution, as quoted in Philip Foner, The Case of Joe Hill (International Publishers Co., 1966), p. 108
“Better to die ten thousand deaths,
Than wound my honour.”
Act I, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
“The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.”
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
“A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.”
“We die only once, and for such a long time!”
On ne meurt qu'une fois; et c'est pour si longtemps!
Le Dépit Amoureux (1656), Act V, sc. iii
"Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians" at Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html
Variant: Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Source: Julius Caesar
