A Quote by Erich Fromm

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Erich Fromm

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Erich Fromm
American - Psychologist
March 23, 1900 - March 18, 1980

Sex isn't necessary. You don't die without it, but you can die having it.

W. C. Fields

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Epictetus

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Willa Cather

My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life.

Alex Trebek

You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.

Dalai Lama

Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.

Walter Payton

I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

Maya Angelou

Jesus died as He had lived-praying, forgiving, loving, sacrificing, trusting, quoting Scripture. If I die as I have lived, how will I die?

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

Heinrich Heine

My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

Sadegh Hedayat

[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

Marguerite Yourcenar

The only possible regret I have is the feeling that I will die without having played enough tennis.

Jean Borotra

It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.

Elizabeth McCracken

If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.” “The Codes?” “No. The Way of Kings.” “That storming book.

Brandon Sanderson

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

Donny Osmond

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