„That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.“

— E.E. Cummings
„Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.“
— Lewis Carroll
„What we live by we die by.“
— Robert Frost
„Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.“
— Albert Einstein
„It is not good to feel too much joy, nor to be glad that our body lives. For we matter not and it must not matter to us whether we live or die, which is to be as our brothers will it. But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.“
— Ayn Rand