“The best way to die is when your living”
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 2 “Do You Believe in Magic?” (p. 43)
“The best way to die is when your living”
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
“Give me, give me God's own country! there to live and there to die”
Thomas Bracken (1843–1898) poet
"God's Own Country" (circa 1885)
“The best strategies run on rails. Live or die, you make your goal.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
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.”
Sufjan Stevens (1975) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
"Age of Adz"
Lyrics, The Age of Adz (2010)
“Never give any cause the opportunity to make the will to live die in you.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
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.”
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) 1st Baron Lansdowne
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.”
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
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
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
March 6, 1936 Fire
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
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