“The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.”
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist
Character of the Late Dr. S. Annesley (1715).
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“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
“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
John Green book Looking for Alaska
Alaska Young, p. 52
Looking for Alaska (2005)
“Young brid
Be alive till they say to you
Die! Die!”
Sengai (1750–1837) Japanese artist
Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6
“It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Oliver Herford (1863–1935) American writer
Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 70.
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