Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche Quotes: We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
         

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.


Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
Check all other quotes by Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
         



Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Sun. 28 Apr. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/We-are-a-society-of-notoriously-unhappy-7830>.





Check out


Other quotes of Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche


The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life.

The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life.



If the religious system does not correspond to the prevalent social character, if it conflicts with the social practice of life, it is only an ideology.

If the religious system does not correspond to the prevalent social character, if it conflicts with the social practice of life, it is only an ideology.



They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity.

They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity.





Other quotes you may like


I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.



In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.

In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.



Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.



As cute as baby clothes are... I try to buy less.

As cute as baby clothes are... I try to buy less.



Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.

Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.



The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.



Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.



I guessed his name was Face of Horror. I wondered how long it had taken his mom to think of that. Bob? No. Sam? No. How about Face of Horror?

I guessed his name was Face of Horror. I wondered how long it had taken his mom to think of that. Bob? No. Sam? No. How about Face of Horror?



Most of all, I loved seeing Princess Leia strangling you at the end of Return of the Jedi.

Most of all, I loved seeing Princess Leia strangling you at the end of Return of the Jedi.



The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.". Author of this quote is Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche. This quote is about consumerism, psychology, philosophy, modern-society, behaviour, economics-philosophy,.