“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
The Stranger (1942)
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Raised by Wolves, Season 1, Episode 1. Character Campion.
Looking for a safe stance on abortion? Me neither. http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=regressive
The Best Page in the Universe
“That's life. We're all going to die someday.”
Said about the Covid-19 pandemic, as quoted in "'A little flu': Brazil's Bolsonaro playing down coronavirus crisis" https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/06/a-little-flu-brazil-s-bolsonaro-playing-down-coronavirus-crisis, euronews (10 April 2020)
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Daybreak http://books.google.com/books?id=Imte1JcsQ64C&q=%22You+don't+get+to+choose+how+you're+going+to+die+Or+when+You+can+only+decide+how+you're+going+to+live+Now%22&pg=PA135#v=onepage (1968)
Variant or paraphrase: You can't decide how you're going to die. Or when. What you can decide is how you're going to live now.
“Without heroes, we're all plain people, and don't know how far we can go.”
The Natural (1952) p. 154 http://books.google.com/books?id=wCWhegoGUxwC&q=%22Without+heroes+we're+all+plain+people+and+don't+know+how+far+we+can+go%22&pg=PA148#v=onepage
“I'm writing this book because we're all going to die”
In the loneliness of my life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother far away, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our death, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid...
Visions of Cody (1960)
Valentinian (1610–14; published 1647), Act IV, scene 4.