Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erich Fromm

The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with love as the only rational answer to the problem of human existence must, then, arrive at the conclusion that important and radical changes in our social structure are necessary, if love is to become a social and not a highly individualistic, marginal phenomenon.

Erich Fromm

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

Erich Fromm

Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

Erich Fromm

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

Erich Fromm

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

Erich Fromm

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Erich Fromm

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Erich Fromm

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Erich Fromm

Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

Erica Jong

Surviving means being born over and over.

Eric Carle

Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.

Eric Clapton

It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately. It was as if I were being reintroduced to something that I already knew, maybe from another, earlier life. For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

George Eliot

Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

George Eliot

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

George Eliot

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

George Eliot

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

George Eliot

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Gary Numan

I'll be the in to your sane.

Gary Shteyngart

If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

Gabriel Lippmann

Life is short and progress is slow

Gabriel Iglesias

You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Cease, cows, life is short.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Fred Allen

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

Fred Allen

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Fred Allen

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose

Frank Press

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

Francois Mitterrand

I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

George Jean Nathan

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

George Herbert

He that feares death lives not.