
“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”
Source: Of Love and Other Demons
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 601.
“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”
Source: Of Love and Other Demons
“"Sir!" she checked him. "I think you are talking treason."
"I hope I am not obscure," said he.”
Source: Captain Blood (1922), Ch. V: "Arabella Bishop"
“I am not the least afraid to die”
Words on his deathbed (9 - 10 May 1863); as quoted in "Stonewall Jackson's Last Days" by Joe D. Haines, Jr. in America's Civil War http://www.historynet.com/magazines/american_civil_war/3031406.html
“I die hard but am not afraid to go.”
I believed from my first attack that I should not survive it — my breath cannot last long.
The first sentence here is sometimes presented as being his last statement before dying, but they are reported as part of the fuller statement, and as being said in the afternoon prior to his death in Life of Washington (1859) by Washington Irving, and his actual last words are stated to have been those reported by Tobias Lear below.
1790s
“Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.”
May 1776 http://books.google.com/books?id=8DcUAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Sir+you+have+but+two+topicks+yourself+and+me+I+am+sick+of+both%22&pg=PA53#v=onepage, p. 313
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
As quoted in Massoud's Smile https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBR8V8YWEAI9OWu?format=jpg, by Hiromi Nagakura
“Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die.”
Orders to the 57th Infantry Regiment, at the Battle of Gallipoli (25 April 1915); as quoted in Studies in Battle Command http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/army/csi-battles.htm by Combat Studies Institute, US Army Command and General Staff College, p. 89; also quoted in Turkey (2007) by Verity Campbell, p. 188
Variant translation: I am not ordering you to fight, I am ordering you to die.
Context: Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.