unlived QUOTES

3 " But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope. "

― Emily Maguire , Taming the Beast

4 " I will not die an unlived life.I will not live in fearof 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 heartuntil it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.I choose to risk my significance,to live so that which came to me as seedgoes to the next as blossom,and that which came to me as blossom,goes on as fruit. "

5 " the one
who will jolt awake
all the unwritten
the unsung
and the unlived
in me.

i am waiting
for him. "

― Sanober Khan

6 " Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling " betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning. "

7 " Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. Death is always at our side.When we show fear. it jumps at us faster than light, but if we do not show fear, it casts its eye upon us gently and then guides us into infinity… "

8 " The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality. "

― Alain de Botton

9 " I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible. "

― Abigail Padgett , The Paper Doll Museum

10 " Time unlived grows old
Like unworn robes in a locked chest. "

― Oktay Rifat , Poems of Oktay Rifat

11 " The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire. "

― Ryan Lilly

12 " To commit the act of felo-de-se is a form of delusion. You see, my love, to leave one's life unfinished implies the possibility of success. What is left unlived may contain the potential truth one always seeks. Those who kill themselves do so with the conviction that they would have reached that truth eventually had they lived to the proper end. They die in the illusion of hope which in a way keeps the rest of us alive. Reason, therefore, for not committing suicide. "

― Raymond Federman , Smiles on Washington Square

13 " 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... "

― , The Radleys

14 " 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 , Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

15 " Your unlived tomorrow is more important than your Lived yesterday "

― Ikechukwu Joseph , Repositioning Yourself for Greater Success

16 " Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents. "

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

― Julia Cameron , The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

18 " 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. "

19 " 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. "