“I dont' want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally.”
Variant: I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
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Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1900–1948Related quotes
“I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Ich bin Leben, das leben will, inmitten von Leben, das leben will. <br class="br">Reverence for Life (1969) <br class="br">Source: Die Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben http://books.google.pl/books?id=q7MCqUIN7hkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, C.H.Beck, 2008, p. 111
“And now I think about it, I never really wanted to live forever. I just want to live well.”
Charles Sheffield book Between the Strokes of Night
Source: Between the Strokes of Night (1985), Chapter 29 (p. 342)
“I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!”
Margaret Peterson Haddix Among the Hidden
Source: Among the Hidden
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
The joke about immortality also appears in On Being Funny (1975)
In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine from April 9, 1987, Allen said "Someone once asked me if my dream was to live on in the hearts of people, and I said I would prefer to live on in my apartment."
Source: The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader (1993)
“I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“I want to live, breathe,
I want to be part of the human race”
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
The Bends
Lyrics, The Bends (1995)