We live ignorant and die in errancy as we lived.

-Abu'l-'Ala¤   Al-Ma'arri
c.1000  Luzu'  miyya'  t, stanza 4 (translated by R  A Nicholson in Studies in Islamic Poetry,1921).

Yif thou wolte lyve frely, lerne to dye gladly.

-Anonymous
c.1375  The Art of Dieing.

Well, there's no help for it. Ageing seems to be the only available way to live a long time.

-Auber, Daniel-Fran c° ois-Esprit
Attributed, when a friend lamented that they were both getting older. Quoted in Clifton Fadiman The Faber Book of  Anecdotes (1985).

Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'The Novelist'.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, neverapathetic, neverattitudinizingöhere isperfection of character.

-Aung San Suu Kyi
c.  AD 170^180  Meditations, bk.7, no.69 (translated by M Staniforth).

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

-Austen,Jane
  Pride and Prejudice, ch.57.

For in him we live, and move and have our being.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles17:28.

Whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans14:8.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die isgain.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Philippians1:21.

La eternidad rotativa puede parecer atroz al espectador; es satisfactoria para sus individuos. Libres de malas noticias y de enfermedades, viven siempre como si fuera la primera vez, sin recordar las anteriores. A circular eternity may seem atrocious to the spectator, but it is satisfactory to individuals inside. Free from bad news and disease, theyalways live as if it were the first time, and do not remember previous times.

-Bioy Casares, Adolfo
  La invencio¤  n de Morel ( The Invention of Morel,1964).

I am well as long as I live on horseback†sleep out-of- doors, or in a log cabin, and lead in all respects a completely unconventional life. But each time for a few days†I have become civilised, I have found myself rapidly going down again.

-Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop
  A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.

If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

-Blake, EubieJames Hubert
  Quoted in the Observer,13 Feb. He died 5 days after his 100th birthday.

Man that isbornof a womanhath but a short timeto live, and is full of misery.

-Book of Common Prayer
Burial of the Dead,  Anthem.

Lord, let me know mine end, and thenumberof mydays: that I may be certified how long I have to live.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 39:5.

Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live.

-Browning, Robert
  La Saisiaz, prologue.

To live is like to loveöall reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

-Butler, Samuel
Collected in H F  Jones (ed)  The Notebooks of Samuel Butler (1912).

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza 72.

My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. See Catullus 200:5.

-Campion,Thomas
A Book of  Airs, no.1,'My Sweetest Lesbia', translation of a song by Catullus.

   Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis. Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love! Let us not give one penny if old men protest and disapprove.

-Catiline full name Lucius Sergius Catilina
Roman conspirator, from an obscure senatorial family. In 63 BC, he  plotted to murder  Cicero  and other  hostile  senators,  and to seize power, but was arrested and executed.

So longe mote ye lyve, and alle proude, Til crowes feet be growen under youre y'.

-Chaucer, Geoffrey
c.1385  Troilus and Criseyde, bk 2, l.402^3.