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American writer 1962Related quotes
“Good, to forgive;
Best, to forget!
Living, we fret;
Dying, we live.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Dedication to La Saisiaz.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
in an interview http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n12/htdocs/ursula-k-le-guin-440.php?country=uk in Vice Magazine. <br class="br">Context: Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.
“Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.”
Thornton Wilder book The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Joan of Arc (1412–1431) French folk heroine and Roman Catholic saint
Quote is often seen as attributed to Joan of Arc. However, the quote is actually a line from a script for the 1946 Broadway play entitled Joan of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson which later become a movie in 1948 entitled Joan of Arc directed by Victor Fleming and starring Ingrid Bergman. The line is spoken by Joan of Arc to Bishop Pierre Cauchon in Act II, Scene III of the play. ( Script http://books.google.com/books?id=bOe6kHHbSiEC) <br class="br">Misattributed
Chuck Klosterman book Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
“I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!”
Javad Alizadeh (1953) cartoonist, journalist and humorist
Quoted in Humor & Caricature (February 1995), p. 3
“We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.”
Julian Barnes (1946) English writer
Source: Nothing to Be Frightened Of