“Vivo sin vivir en mí… muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive… I die because I am not dying.)”
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“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.
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
More Than Just Comfort: An Answer to Cancer (c. 1979)
Marion Woodman (1928–2018) Canadian writer
Source: Bone: Dying into Life (2000), p. 241
“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood
Source: The Year of the Flood
“I am alive, and even if I die, all of you are Gamal Abdul Nasser!”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) second president of Egypt
To his followers during the assassination attempt by the Muslim Brotherhood, as quoted in The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Context: Let them kill Nasser! What is Nasser but one among many? I am alive, and even if I die, all of you are Gamal Abdul Nasser!
“I am not ready to die because it requires infinitely higher courage to live.”
Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949
[Naravane, Vishwanath S., Sarojini Naidu: An Introduction to Her Life, Work and Poetry, http://books.google.com/books?id=h6v8HsRUBucC&pg=PA133, 1 January 1996, Orient Blackswan, 978-81-250-0931-3, 133–]