“He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience.”
T.S. Eliot book The Waste Land
Source: The Waste Land
“We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.”
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collecti…" by Chuck Klosterman?
Chuck Klosterman77
Author, Columnist 1972Related quotes
Norman Mailer book Advertisements for Myself
"Hip, Hell, and the Navigator" in Western Review No. 23 (Winter 1959); republished in Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988) edited by J. Michael Lennon.
Source: Advertisements for Myself
“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 170.
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
“There are so many little dyings
How do we know which one of them
is death?”
Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972) American writer and poet
“In living we die, in dying we live.”
Ted Dekker (1962) American writer
“We live a dying dream / If you know what I mean”
Noel Gallagher (1967) British musician
Falling Down
Dig Out Your Soul (2008)