„If suddenly you do not exist,If suddenly you are not living,I shall go on living.I do not dare,I do not dare to write it,if you die.I shall go on living.“

— Pablo Neruda
„You do not do, you do not doAny more, black shoeIn which I have lived like a footFor thirty years, poor and white,Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.“
— Sylvia Plath
„There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live – I have no use for the sour-faced man – and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?“
— T.S. Eliot
„my feet will want to walk to where you are sleepingbutI shall go on living.“
— Pablo Neruda
„And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?“
— T.S. Eliot
„Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.“
— Jack Kerouac
„You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.“
— Harper Lee
„Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson