Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist
Source: What is Property? (1840), Ch.V
“Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.”
7 May 1789
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)
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John F. Kerry (1943) politician from the United States
Testimony before subcommittees of the U.S. Senate, April, 1971
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VI : In the Depths of the Abyss
Context: I will not say that the more or less poetical and unphilosophical doctrines that I am about to set forth are those which make me live; but I will venture to say that it is my longing to live and to live for ever that inspires these doctrines within me. And if by means of them I succeed in strengthening and sustaining this same longing in another, perhaps when it is all but dead, then I shall have performed a man's work, and above all, I shall have lived. In a word, be it with reason or without reason or against reason, I am resolved not to die. And if, when at last I die out, I die altogether, then I shall not have died out of myself — that is, I shall not have yielded myself to death, but my human destiny shall have killed me. Unless I come to lose my head, or rather my heart, I will not abdicate from life — life will be wrested from me.
Jane Rogers book The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Source: The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011), Chapter 10 (p. 75)
“Let's hope that Ken Oosterbroek will be the last person to die.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Spoken shortly after Inkatha announced that they would participate in the 1994 elections, as quoted in The Bang-Bang Club : Snapshots from a Hidden War (2000) by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, p. 168
2000s
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
Last words[citation needed]
Lord Palmerston had similar last words in 1865: "Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!"[citation needed]
Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx
“To die is nothing. Begin by living. It’s less funny and lasts longer.”
Jean Anouilh Roméo et Jeannette
Mourir, ce n'est rien. Commence donc par vivre. C'est moins drôle et c'est plus long.
Roméo et Jeannette (1946), Act 3.
“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
Quoted in [Garnett, Richard, Life of Emerson, 1888, http://www.poemhunter.com/john-arbuthnot/quotations/poet-32922/page-1/, 1888, Chapter 7]