“I am not ready to die because it requires infinitely higher courage to live.”

“If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?”

“It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.”

“Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.”

“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”

“(…) I live on courage. Courage is my essence, which is love of life. I am free of memories and anticipations, unconcerned with what I am and what I am not. (…) I have the courage to be as nothing and to see the world as it is: nothing. It sounds simply, just try it!”

“To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be?”

“"Mrs. M., you seem to be very sick." " Yes," said she, "I am dying." "And are you ready to die?" "Sir, God knows I have taken Him at His word, and I am not afraid to die."”

“I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.”

“Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.”