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Quotes About Unlived

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
The difference in Billy wasn't what had happened to him, but what hadn't. He had a life he hadn't led, and he knew it. He just hoped nobody else noticed.
~ Michael Lewis
Killed time is an abortion, life that never gets lived, gone, just gone.
~ Karen Marie Moning
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
Our suffering comes from our unlived life--the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche.
~ C.G. Jung
The heaviest burden any child bears is the unlived life of the parent.
~ C.G. Jung
The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.
~ Carl Jung
Pero, despues de todo, algunos dicen que las historias de amor mas hermosas son aquellas que no han tenido tiempo de vivirse.
~ Guillaume Musso
This is why Jung observed that the greatest burden the child must bear is the unlived life of the parent.
~ James Hollis
What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents . . . have not lived." Carl Jung
~ James Hollis
Para la mayoría de nosotros la verdadera vida es la vida que no llevamos.
~ Oscar Wilde
Most people's lives go unrecorded, or worse unlived.
~ Pamela Anderson
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically … on children than the unlived life of the parent. —CARL JUNG
~ Christine Carter
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
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
To experience beauty on Earth, you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful on this planet has to do with time passing and the Earth turning. Which might also explain why to look at such natural beauty was to also feel sadness and a craving for a life unlived.
~ Matt Haig
The death instinct is reconciled with the life instinct only in a life which is not repressed, which leaves no "unlived lines" in the human body, the death instinct then being affirmed in a body which is willing to die.
~ Norman O. Brown