Sherin Georges

“Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?”
― Anton Chekhov, The Complete Short Novels

“To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...”
― Anton Chekhov

“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”
― Erich Fromm

“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”
― Erich Fromm