“So forever in the future,
Shall I battle as of yore,
Dying to be born a fighter,
But to die again, once more.”

“… I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.”

“Natasha and I said more than once that one may arrive at such a physical condition that it would be better to cut short one's own life or, more correctly, the too slow process of dying … But whatever may be the circumstances of my death I shall die with unshaken faith in the communist future. This faith in man and in his future gives me even now such power of resistance as cannot be given by any religion.”

“I was born ambitious, I suppose I shall die ambitious. I can no more change it than the colour of my eyes.”

“In the lost battle,
Borne down by the flying,
Where mingles war's rattle
With groans of the dying.”

“The guerrilla fighter, who is general of himself, need not die in every battle. He is ready to give his life, but the positive quality of this guerrilla warfare is precisely that each one of the guerrilla fighters is ready to die, not to defend an ideal, but rather to convert it into reality.”

“During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.”

“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!”

“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”

“Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.”
Ante senectutem curavi ut bene viverem, in senectute ut bene moriar; bene autem mori est libenter mori.