We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend — Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi. — Tahir Shah
He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death. — Henry Fielding
What’s fame? a fancy’d life in other’s breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. — Alexander Pope