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).

You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other.

-Adams,John
  Letter to Thomas  Jefferson,15  Jul.

What a pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act 4, sc.1, l.258^9.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

-Addison,Joseph
  Last words, to his stepson Lord Warwick. Quoted in EdwardYoung Conjectures on Original Composition (1759).

Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

-Aeschylus
Prometheus Vinctus, l.750^1.

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

-Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg
  Death:  A Comedy in One Act.

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  Take A Girl LikeYou, ch.5.

Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant! Hail Caesar, we who are about to die salute you!

-Anonymous
Traditional formula for gladiators saluting the emperor. One source for the expression is Suetonius Claudius 21:'Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant', ('Hail Emperor, we salute you, we who are about to die!').

Yif thou wolte lyve frely, lerne to dye gladly.

-Anonymous
c.1375  The Art of Dieing.

Export or die.

-Anonymous
s  British Board of  Trade.

Don't die of ignorance.

-Anonymous
  AIDS awareness campaign slogan.

   Mourir, ce n'est rien. Commence donc par vivre. C'est moins dro"  le et c'est plus long. To die is nothing. Begin by living. It's less funnyand lasts longer.

-Anouilh,Jean
  Rome¤  o et  Jeannette, act 3.

C'est bon pour les hommes de croire aux ide¤  es et de mourir pour elles. It isgood for people to believe in ideas and die for them.

-Anouilh,Jean
  Antigone.

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

-Appleton,Thomas Gold
Quoted in Oliver Wendell Holmes The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table (1858), ch.6.  Although the speaker in Holmes's book is not identified by name, he is generally identified as  Appleton.

You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world.Then I can die.

-Armistead, Lewis Addison
  Every Second Counts.

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'.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.2,'Of Death'.

When the guns begin to rattle And the men to die Does the Goddess of the Battle Smile or sigh?

-Barker, George Granville
  'Battle Hymn of the New Republic'.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

-Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)
  Peter Pan (published1928), act 3.

Die? I should say not, old fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

-Barrymore,John
  Quoted in Lionel Barrymore We Barrymores (1951), ch.26.