
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Variant: It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Source: Les Misérables
Variant: You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
Source: Moral Essays
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Variant: It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Source: Les Misérables
“Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.”
Letter to Bolingbroke (March 21, 1729); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (pp. 254-255).
“A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.”
“To die is nothing. Begin by living. It’s less funny and lasts longer.”
Mourir, ce n'est rien. Commence donc par vivre. C'est moins drôle et c'est plus long.
Roméo et Jeannette (1946), Act 3.
"Ask Me Anything" thread on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/aunv58/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/eh9gsvg (25 February 2019)
2000s
“Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.”