Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953–2001) Afghan military leader
As quoted in Massoud's Smile https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBR8V8YWEAI9OWu?format=jpg, by Hiromi Nagakura
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953–2001) Afghan military leader
As quoted in Massoud's Smile https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBR8V8YWEAI9OWu?format=jpg, by Hiromi Nagakura
“I am not resting until I die. I am not doing this for myself, but for the country.”
Mohamed Al-Fayed (1933) Egyptian businessman
Quoted in [Caroline, McClatchey, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7250241.stm, Al Fayed states his position on the Diana inquest, BBC, February 18, 2007, 2007-3-18]
“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.
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Duke, Winter for Two, p. 212
1990s, The Notebook (1996)
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) British musician and poet
Lord of the Dance (1963)
“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”
Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.”
Bernard Hopkins (1965) American boxer
As quoted at "Calzaghe nicks round one" at BBC Sport (8 February 2008) http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A32124377 <br class="br">2000s, 2008