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Death Quotes by Erich Fromm
- Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of…
- Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.
- It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.
- When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
- People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.
- To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.
- To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
- Man always dies before he is fully born.
- . . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden