Quotes About Unlived Life

#1. 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

#2. Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

Irvin D. Yalom

#3. His unlived life worried him, tortured him, turning round and round inside him like an animal in a cage. In Dodo's body, the body of a half-wit, somebody was growing old, although he had not lived; somebody was maturing to a death that had no meaning at all.

Bruno Schulz

#4. 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

#5. Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

#6. Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

Natalie Babbitt

#7. 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

#8. Maybe it's less threatening to believe that our beloved spouse is worthy to live out his or her unlived life, while we are not.

Steven Pressfield

#9. If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?

Paul Kalanithi

#10. 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

#11. Our suffering comes from our unlived life
the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche.

C. G. Jung

#12. I had 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. My

Irvin D. Yalom

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.

Natalie Babbitt

#17. Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

Carl Jung

#18. It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

Dan Millman

#19. ( ... )while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

Robert McKee

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

Erich Fromm

#24. I will not die an unlived life.

Dawna Markova

#25. Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

C. G. Jung

#26. Nothing so much torments a geezer as the thought of the unlived life.

Jim Harrison

#27. 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

#28. A life without risk, is a life unlived my friend.

Big Time Rush

#29. Time unlived grows old
Like unworn robes in a locked chest.

Oktay Rifat

#30. Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

Ernest Becker

#31. Love unlived is a sin against life, and mourning is one of the ways we love. I felt it then, and I let it happen, the longing for him to return. The power in his eyes, and the pride when I did something he admired, and the love in his laugh. The longing: the longing for the lost.

Gregory David Roberts

#32. How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

Andre Aciman

#33. I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

Abigail Padgett

#34. A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, A life unlived isn't worth examining.

Oscar Wilde

#35. The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

Irvin D. Yalom

#36. Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

Edward Zwick

#37. Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

Simon Van Booy

#38. The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

Irvin D. Yalom

#39. At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Rose Macaulay

#40. Unlived dreams often show up in your body as disease. Go for the Big Wow. Life is short!

Christiane Northrup

#41. Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it.

Michael Leunig