“I have not learned how often I
Can win, can love, but choose to die.”
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W.D. Snodgrass1
Poet 1926–2009Related quotes
“Who can be forced has not learned how to die.”
Cogi qui potest nescit mori.
Seneca the Younger Hercules Furens
Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), line 426; (Megara).
Alternate translation: Who can be compelled does not know how to die.
Tragedies
“I can choose. I have to choose.”
Ivan Illich (1926–2002) austrian philosopher and theologist
We the People interview (1996)
Context: I can choose. I have to choose. I have to make my mind up whom I will take into my arms, to whom I will lose myself, whom I will treat as that vis-a-vis, that face into which I look, which I lovingly touch with my fingering gaze, from whom I accept being who I am as a gift.
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
I Don't Know.
Song lyrics, Blizzard of Ozz (1980)
“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
“Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.”
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
“How many different deaths I can die?”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
4th February 1826) The Past (under the pen name Iole
The London Literary Gazette, 1826