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)
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.
“When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)
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Novelist 1948Related quotes
“If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.”
“Always knowing you're going to die
And until then knowing you've got to live.”
Source: See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die
“Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.”
Variant: Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
Source: Invisible Monsters
““Are you that afraid to die?”
“No. I simply like to live.””
Source: Tau Zero (1970), Chapter 7 (p. 78)