Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 15, p. 145.
“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
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Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945–1981Related quotes
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: God cries to my heart: "Save me!"
God cries to men, to animals, to plants, to matter: "Save me!"
Listen to your heart and follow him. Shatter your body and awake: We are all one.
Love man because you are he.
Love animals and plants because you were they, and now they follow you like faithful co-workers and slaves.
Love your body; only with it may you fight on this earth and turn matter into spirit.
Love matter. God clings to it tooth and nail, and fights. Fight with him.
Die every day. Be born every day. Deny everything you have every day. The superior virtue is not to be free but to fight for freedom.
Do not condescend to ask: "Shall we conquer? Shall we be conquered?" Fight on!
“Better to add life to your days than days to your life.”
Rita Levi-Montalcini
(1909–2012) Italian neurologist
Source: https://www.frasicelebri.it/frasi-di/rita-levi-montalcini/.
“It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.”
Terry Brooks
(1944) American writer
Source: Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Nancy Pelosi
(1940) American politician, first female Speaker of the House of Representatives, born 1940
Remarks to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, quoted in "Pelosi makes unannounced trip to Kyiv, becoming highest-ranking US official to meet with Zelensky since the war began" by Michelle Watson and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/01/politics/pelosi-zelensky-kyiv-ukraine-intl/index.html] (1 May 2022)]; also in "Pelosi meets Zelenskyy in Ukraine, says commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done'", Global News (1 May 2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga34dmkMwBU
“one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap”
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
(1862–1931) African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, early leader in the civil rights mo…
“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”
κρεῖσσον γὰρ εἰσάπαξ θανεῖν
ἢ τὰς ἁπάσας ἡμέρας πάσχειν κακῶς.
Variant translation by John Stuart Blackie (1850):
"Life and life's sorrows? Once to die is better
Than thus to drag sick life."
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 750–751
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 18: