“If you're not busy living, you're dying.”
Source: American Assassin
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American writer of fiction 1966–2013Related quotes
Octave Mirbeau book The Torture Garden
Variant: “It isn’t dying that’s sad. It’s living when you’re not happy.”
Source: Le Jardin des supplices
“If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.”
Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer
“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Different Seasons (1982), Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Variant: Either get busy living or get busy dying
Source: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
Sarah McLachlan (1968) Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter
World on Fire, written by Sarah McLachlan and Pierre Marchand
Song lyrics, Afterglow (2003)
“If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) comedian and social critic
“There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Siuan Sanche
(15 September 1992)
