“There are few things easier than to live badly and to die well.”
Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
“There are few things easier than to live badly and to die well.”
Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
“That man lives badly who does not know how to die well.”
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
On Tranquility of the Mind
“If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.”
Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“Whoa there, lad! Whoa! Gentle now! Die well, die well.”
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Sergeant Michael Connelly, p. 184
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Sword (1983)
“Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.”
Ante senectutem curavi ut bene viverem, in senectute ut bene moriar; bene autem mori est libenter mori.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXI: On meeting death cheerfully, Line 2.
Gian Domenico Borasio (1962) physician, specialist of palliative medicine
"It's not about dying", TEDxCHUV address (13 November 2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5WYNf1td-4
“no one dies happy, you can only die well”
Stephen King book Different Seasons
Source: Different Seasons