“I want to kiss you one more time before I die.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Source: Clockwork Princess
“I want to kiss you one more time before I die.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Source: Clockwork Princess
“How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.”
Juliet Marillier book Daughter of the Forest
Source: Daughter of the Forest
“I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward.”
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Said while being taken to his execution, as quoted in Philip Foner, The Case of Joe Hill (International Publishers Co., 1966), p. 108
“If I am to die, I would rather die fighting on the left.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Remark to Herbert Samuel, explaining his opposition to Liberal politicians joining the National Government (5 October 1931), quoted in John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (1977), p. 301
Leader of the Independent Liberals
“I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.”
William Boyd book Any Human Heart
Source: Any Human Heart
“… I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.”
Hubert Selby Jr. (1928–2004) American writer
Mark Manson (1984) American writer and blogger
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 2, “Happiness Is a Problem” (p. 40)
“I neither want to die nor do I want to want to die; I want to live for ever and ever and ever.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), III : The Hunger of Immortality
Context: Glorious is the risk! — καλος γαρ ο κινδυνος, glorious is the risk that we are able to run of our souls never dying … Faced with this risk, I am presented with arguments designed to eliminate it, arguments demonstrating the absurdity of the belief in the immortality of the soul; but these arguments fail to make any impression on me, for they are reasons and nothing more than reasons, and it is not with reasons that the heart is appeased. I do not want to die — no; I neither want to die nor do I want to want to die; I want to live for ever and ever and ever. I want this "I" to live — this poor "I" that I am and that I feel myself to be here and now, and therefore the problem of the duration of my soul, of my own soul, tortures me.