Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 2 “Do You Believe in Magic?” (p. 43)
“The best way to die is when your living”
“Give me, give me God's own country! there to live and there to die”
"God's Own Country" (circa 1885)
“The best strategies run on rails. Live or die, you make your goal.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“When I die, when I die, I'll rot.
But when I live, but when I live,
I'll give it all I've got.”
"Age of Adz"
Lyrics, The Age of Adz (2010)
“Never give any cause the opportunity to make the will to live die in you.”
Original: Non dare mai a nessuna causa l'opportunità di far morire in te la voglia di vivere.
Source: prevale.net
“Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.”
Meditations on Death, Stanza 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 504.
“Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.”
See also: "Live or die, sink or swim" (George Peele, Edward I, c. 1584)
Source: Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 133
March 6, 1936 Fire
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Variant: My Mama used to tell me if u can’t find something to live for, you best find something to die for.
Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996
