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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him
E. M. Forster1879–1970Howards End (1910), Chapter 41In context
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
E. M. Forster1879–1970A Passage to India (1924), Part II: Caves, Chapter XIVIn context
- Writing
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Harry Emerson Fosdick1878–1969On Being a Real Person (1943)
We’re all alive, but we don’t know why or what for; we’re all searching for happiness; we’re all leading lives that are different and yet the same.
Anne Frank1929–1945The Diary of a Young Girl (1942—1944), 6 July 1944 (A version)
- Happiness
I want to go on living even after my death! And that’s why I’m so grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop myself and to express all that’s inside me!
Anne Frank1929–1945The Diary of a Young Girl (1942—1944), 5 April 1944
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.
Viktor Frankl1905–1997Man’s Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984), p. 67 in the 1959 Beacon Press edition
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.
Viktor Frankl1905–1997Man’s Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984), p. 126 in the 1984 Pocket Books edition
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy (13 November 1789), quoting a popular phrase dated back to the 1716 play The Cobbler of Preston, written by Christopher Bullock.
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Betty Friedan1921–2006The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 14 “A New Life Plan for Women”.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Erich Fromm1900–1980Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
Erich Fromm1900–1980Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 3 “Human Nature and Character”
- Philosophy
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost1874–1963Attributed in Ray Josephs, “Robert Frost’s Secret”, in William Nichols (ed.) Words to Live By (Simon and Schuster, 1959), pp. 172–73
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
Robert Frost1874–1963Fire and Ice (1920), New Hampshire (1923), Fire and IceIn context
I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost1874–1963A Witness Tree (1942)
- Love