“Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.”
Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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American poet 1874–1963Related quotes
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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.
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.
“We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.”
Julian Barnes
(1946) English writer
Source: Nothing to Be Frightened Of
“That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.”
E.E. Cummings
(1894–1962) American poet
“We are born, we live, and we die in the midst of the marvelous.”
Napoleon I of France
(1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Context: What are we? What is the future? What is the past? What magic fluid envelops us and hides from us the things it is most important for us to know? We are born, we live, and we die in the midst of the marvelous.
“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
Napoleon I of France
(1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
