Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: The house on the hill (1949), Chapter 8, p. 105
Blade of the Immortal, Volume 1: Blood of a Thousand
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: The house on the hill (1949), Chapter 8, p. 105
“If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?”
Charles de Lint (1951) author
Svaha (2000), p. 265
“You might get lucky and die in some corner.
~Soi Fon”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
“It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Them that die will be the lucky ones!”
Robert Louis Stevenson book Treasure Island
Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 20, Silver's Embassy.
Joan Baez (1941) American singer
Daybreak http://books.google.com/books?id=Imte1JcsQ64C&q=%22You+don't+get+to+choose+how+you're+going+to+die+Or+when+You+can+only+decide+how+you're+going+to+live+Now%22&pg=PA135#v=onepage (1968) <br class="br">Variant or paraphrase: You can't decide how you're going to die. Or when. What you can decide is how you're going to live now.
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Variant: Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 167 <!-- p. 148 -->