Roran, on the cause of the Varden
Inheritance (2011)
“It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”
“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.”
Quoted in Scott MacLeod, "South Africa: Extremes in Black and Whites" http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975037,00.html, Time, March 9, 1992, p. 38
Quoted in "The Mind of Black Africa" (1996) by Dickson A. Mungazi, p. 159
“It is better to live rich, than to die rich.”
April 17, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
Source: Women in Love (1920), Ch. 15
“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”
This is usually attributed to Emiliano Zapata, but sometimes to Aeschylus, who is credited with expressing similar sentiments in Prometheus Bound: "For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life".
Misattributed
Fragment xxxii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
“Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.”
On the snuff of a candle the night before he died; Raleigh's Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661
