Unlived Life Quotes

If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining? ~ Paul Kalanithi

That is what the taste of blood does. It takes away the gap between thought and action.To think is to do. There is no unlived life inside you as the air speeds past your body, as you look down at the dreary villages and market towns ... ~ Matt Haig

While most would agree with Socrates that, "the unexamined life is not worth living," a lesser-known quote by Sheldon Kopp might be more important here: "The unlived life is not worth examining. ~ Meg Jay

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining. ~ Dan Millman

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived. ~ Irvin D. Yalom

The brave don't live forever but the cautious don't live at all. The only thing that's truly terrifying is the unlived life. ~ Bill See

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. ~ Rose Macaulay

Death is only dangerous
to the unlived life. ~ Atticus Poetry

The unlived life is not worth examining ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned. ~ Jo Coudert

Mothers have martyred themselves in their children's names since the beginning of time. We have lived as if she who disappears the most, loves the most. We have been conditioned to prove our love by slowly ceasing to exist.

What a terrible burden for children to bear - to know that they are the reason their mother stopped living. What a terrible burden for our daughters to bear - to know that if they choose to become mothers, this will be their fate, too. Because if we show them that being a martyr is the highest form of love, that is what they will become. They will feel obligated to love as well as their mothers loved, after all. They will believe they have permission to live only as fully as their mothers allowed themselves to live.

If we keep passing down the legacy of martyrdom to our daughters, with whom does it end? Which woman ever gets to live? And when does the death sentence begin? At the wedding altar? In the delivery room? Whose delivery room - our children's or our own? When we call martyrdom love we teach our children that when love begins, life ends. This is why Jung suggested: There is no greater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent. ~ Glennon Doyle

The unchosen thing is what causes the trouble. If you don't do something with the unchosen, it will set up a minor infection somewhere in the unconscious and later take its revenge on you. Unlived life does not just "go away"... ~ Robert A. Johnson

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice. ~ Jeanette Winterson

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. ~ Dawna Markova

..time is always the price we pay for the unlived life. ~ Andre Aciman

I will not die an unlived life. ~ Dawna Markova

Don't be afraid of death, rather the unlived life. ~ Natalie Babbitt

Our suffering comes from our unlived life
the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche. ~ C. G. Jung

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent ~ Carl Jung

Perhaps, says the genius, music doesn't change us that much, nor does great art change us. Instead, it reminds us of who, despite all our claims or denials, we've always known we were and are destined to remain. It reminds us of the mileposts we've buried and hidden and then lost, of the people and things that mattered despite our lies, despite the years. Music is no more than the sound of our regrets put to a cadence that stirs the illusion of pleasure and hope. It's the surest reminder that we're here for a very short while and that we've neglected or cheated or, worse yet, failed to live our lives. Music is the unlived life. You've lived the wrong life, my friend, and almost defaced the one you were given to live. ~ Andre Aciman

Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them. ~ Simon Van Booy

And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning.
I tried to smile. For him. ~ Katherine Applegate

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. ~ Gloria Steinem

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind. ~ Irvin D. Yalom

Come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life fully. A good working formula is: the more unlived life, or unrealized potential, the greater one's death anxiety. ~ Irvin D. Yalom

The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life. ~ Erich Fromm

This is how Resistance disfigures love. The stew it creates is rich, it's colorful; Tennessee Williams could work it up into a trilogy. But is it love? If we're the supporting partner, shouldn't we face our own failure to pursue our unlived life, rather than hitchhike on our spouse's coattails? And if we're the supported partner, shouldn't we step out from the glow of our loved one's adoration and instead encourage him to let his own light shine? ~ Steven Pressfield

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. ~ Steven Pressfield

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. ~ C. G. Jung

I will not die an unlived life ... I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me ... I choose to risk my significance. ~ Dawna Markova

Dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life. ~ Natalie Babbitt

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana. ~ Lana Turner

Do you respond to life or are you merely reacting to it? ~ Zig Ziglar

I've had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad. ~ E.L. Doctorow

I thought seeing him naked was the highlight of my life. That suit was better than sex. ~ Nicole Castle

In one Native American folk tale, a grandfather explains to his grandson that he has two wolves inside him. One wolf fills him with hope and reminds him how wonderful his life is, and the other fills him with doubt and convinces him that nothing is worth the effort. The grandson asks, concerned for his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The grandfather replies, "Whichever one I feed. ~ Anonymous

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss. ~ Patti Smith

Do not be anxious and begin to pray. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I can honestly say, I have the love of my life, and we have the most amazing children. ~ Colleen Saidman

There's nothing worse than looking as if you've tried too hard or preened to within an inch of your life. If I'm wearing a strong item like a really beautiful dress, then I'll play down my shoes and accessories and make my hair really natural. ~ Louise Nurding

Technology made everything better for a while and now it seems life is circling back around to the dark ages. ~ Patricia Cornwell

Most people believe they have a clear idea of what's right and wrong. Many say they know how they'll act, or how they'll handle an extreme situation. But to be honest, no one knows. Not really. Even if you say, 'I'll never do this or that.' it actually might not be true. Because no one of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong. And then there are the totally unforeseen situations, when life deals cards you never expected, or when something's that's considered wrong morphs into something right and your mind determines that what once was the rule is not written in stone. ~ Lurlene McDaniel

Whether morality is moral is an open question. ~ R.N. Prasher

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing. ~ Marina Abramovic

Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once. ~ Sarah Dessen

The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

For I have been in my preaching, especially when I have been engaged in the doctrine of life by Christ, without works, as if an angel of God had stood by at my back to encourage me: ~ John Bunyan

Who can resist when destiny calls? ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world. ~ I.M. Pei

As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day. ~ Kate Langley Bosher

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened. ~ Mark Twain

My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day. ~ Meat Loaf

He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and the reverence of the worshipper ... William Kent, during Muir's life, paid him a rare tribute in giving to the nation a park of redwoods with the understanding that it should be named Muir Woods. But the nation owes him more. His work was not sectional but for the whole people, for he was the real father of the forest reservations of America. ~ Robert Underwood Johnson

I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified. ~ Craig Venter

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list. ~ Nicolas Chamfort

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn't mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we don't have to feel it's happening because we personally made the wrong move. In reality, however, when we feel suffering, we think that something is wrong. As long as we're addicted to hope, we feel that we can tone our experience down or liven it up or change it somehow, and we continue to suffer a lot. ~ Pema Chodron

With the founding of Denishawn, Ted Shawn stated the artistic creed which was to guide the school, the company and, indeed, his whole life in dance. ~ Walter Terry

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

A man's life had to have more purpose than only to feed himself each day. ~ Diana Gabaldon

He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid. ~ Mary Renault

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb. ~ Henry Wood

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life. ~ Richard J. Foster

Why? But I want to know just why it's impossible for an American to be gracefully idle" - his words gathered conviction - "it astonishes me. It - it - I don't understand why people think that every young man ought to go down-town and work ten hours a day for the best twenty years of his life at dull, unimaginative work, certainly not altruistic work. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman. ~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

The holes in my shoes and the holes in my jeans make me whole! ~ Avijeet Das

Everyone knows how women soldier on, how women dream up blueprints, recipes, ideas for a better world, and then sometimes lose them on the way to the crib in the middle of the night, on the way to Stop and Shop, or the bath. They lose them on the way to greasing the path on which their husband and children will ride serenely through life. ~ Meg Wolitzer

Not every given chance deserves love, but every love deserves a given chance. ~ Soar

Although they will miss his presence if he dies, his condition is too burdensome to require his continued presence. In such circumstances, what is selfish is the insistence that the prospective suicide remain alive, not that he seek his own demise. The argument about selfishness can backfire in another way. Just as it is sometimes the case that those who kill themselves have accorded insufficient weight to the interests of others, so it is sometimes the case that those who do not kill themselves make this error. Consistent with what I have already said, I do not think that the interests of others are decisive. Nevertheless, there are situations in which a person's interest in continued life is negligible, because he will die soon anyway, and the quality of his life is appalling. If seeing out his days, rather than taking his own life earlier, would spell financial ruin for his family (because of the costs of his medical care), then it may well be unduly selfish not to take one's own life. ~ David Benatar