“This was incredibly foolish. To live just to die. And to die so easily.”
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“So might we die, not envying them that live;
So would we die, not unrevenged all.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Noi morirem, né invidia avremo ai vivi:
Noi morirem, ma non morremo inulti.
Canto II, stanza 86 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Quintana of Charyn
“The Revolution is so that people can live, not so that they can die!”
Lu Xun (1881–1936) Chinese novelist and essayist
Source: [citation needed]
“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.”
Steve Biko (1946–1977) anti-apartheid activist in South Africa
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 <br class="br">Quoted in "The Mind of Black Africa" (1996) by Dickson A. Mungazi, p. 159
Shimon Peres (1923–2016) Israeli politician, 8th prime minister and 9th president of Israel
As quoted in Serving "60 Years to Life", Newsweek Europe (12 December 2005)
“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”
Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat