“Let me die the moment my love dies.
Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
Let me die still loving, and so, never die.”
Source: Metamorphoses
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Mary Zimmerman2
American theatre director and playwright 1960Related quotes
Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676) German hymn writer
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 400.
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
If 6 Was 9
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
Source: Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
“For on this my heart is set:
When the hour is nigh me,
Let me in the tavern die,
With a tankard by me.”
Meum est propositum<br/>in taberna mori,<br/>ut sint vina proxima<br/>morientis ori.
Archpoet (1130–1165) 12th century poet
Meum est propositum
in taberna mori,
ut sint vina proxima
morientis ori.
Source: "Confession", Line 89
“Let me die in my footsteps before I go under the ground.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 (1991), Let Me Die In My Footsteps (recorded 1962)
“I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.”
Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) 48th President of Venezuela
Last words (mouthed). http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/07/heart-attack-killed-suffering-hugo-chavez-head-venezuela-presidential-guard/ <br class="br">2013
“Another white man's trick! Let me go! Let me die fighting!”
Crazy Horse (1840–1877) Oglala Sioux chief
During the final confrontation in which he was fatally wounded, as quoted in Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (1919) by Charles Alexander Eastman
