Top 100 Is Life Worth Living Quotes

#1. Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

William James

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#2. Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Samuel Butler

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#3. I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living? Should I blast myself?

Tupac Shakur

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#4. Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

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#5. Is life worth living? Yes, so long
As Spring revives the year,
And hails us with the cuckoo's song,
To show that she is here;

Alfred Austin

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#6. Is life worth living simply because you live, or is it worth more if you make life happen?

Jaycee Dugard

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#7. The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

Nicholson Baker

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#8. I write - and read - for the sake of the story ... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?

Ayn Rand

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#9. Waiting to live life is not worth it. Waiting for someone to figure out how to live with you is not worth waiting for. When you start living your own life, life brings you someone worth being with ...

Sadiqua Hamdan

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#10. In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer ... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.

John Leo

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#11. Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. But you know, an over-examined life can be a real crap festival, too.

Alex Bosworth

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#12. There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 'tis hardly worth while to be here at all.

Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke

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#13. William James said, "You cannot travel without until you have travelled within." Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." People who discover their sweet spot are people who take the inward journey and examine themselves. They make the choice to live until they die.

Scott M. Fay

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#14. Yes, it will all end one day; but today is worth living.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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#15. A risk-free life is a life that's not worth living.

Joel Salatin

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#16. What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them!

Ken Puddicombe

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#17. The most amazing thing that makes life worth living is your love.

Debasish Mridha

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#18. Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

A.J. Muste

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#19. me. That's what it does. Nothing is ever enough. You get more, and more, but you're never happy. It's a trap baited with all the things you want most. That life - it's not worth living.

Christie Golden

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#20. It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Guy De Maupassant

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#21. Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

Hayao Miyazaki

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#22. The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.

Brian Greene

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#23. In the midst of meeting new people and making plans, I forgot that my plan is to walk straight into a battle that could claim my life. Right after I realized that my life was worth living.

Veronica Roth

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#24. When you're faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realize that life is worth living and there are a lots of things you want to do.

Stephen Hawking

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#25. To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.

George Sutherland

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#26. I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.

Pam Houston

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#27. It is the beauty of life that makes our lives worth living.

Debasish Mridha

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#28. Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!

Rihanna

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#29. Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning? For, if not, then ultimately there is no meaning to survival; for a life whose meaning depends upon such a happenstance - as whether one escapes or not - ultimately would not be worth living at all.

Viktor E. Frankl

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#30. A life with a worthy purpose is worth living.

Debasish Mridha

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#31. I think there are two types of people - those who view life's uncertainty with dread and fear, and those who recognize that life's unpredictability is what makes life worth living.

Christopher E. Long

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#32. The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Walter Benjamin

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#33. [For the French] time ... is an ephemeral currency and should be spent doing the things that make life worth living.

Debra Ollivier

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#34. Life is a long boring drive on an empty road punctuated by special moments that make the journey worth taking.

Chloe Thurlow

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#35. I know you can't live on hope alone; but without hope, life is not worth living. So you, and you and you: you got to give them hope; you got to give them hope.

Harvey Milk

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#36. New Life Realization #1:
Being an adult is hard work. I know people tell you this growing up, but it doesn't really sink in until you're living it, waist deep in the swamps of no-free-time and not-enough-money.
New Life Realization #2:
It's worth it.

Cora Carmack

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#37. I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

Max Beckmann

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#38. The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!

Adam Leipzig

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#39. Avoidance of boredom is the only worthy mode of action. Life otherwise is not worth living.)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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#40. What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#41. My life is worth living said the Scorpion and showed his sting.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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#42. Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.

Steve Jobs

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#43. My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

Billy Corgan

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#44. If anyone does not have three minutes in his life to make an omelette, then life is not worth living.

Raymond Blanc

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#45. To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

Marsha Sinetar

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#46. Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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#47. If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

Herbert Newton Casson

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#48. Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.

Annie Dillard

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#49. It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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#50. The idea that property has overcome our personalities is the single reason we'll miss the best part of our lives. It's people, not possessions that make our lives worth living.

Brian Krans

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#51. There are only four questions of importance in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to all of them is the same. Only LOVE.

Umberto Eco

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#52. I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

Oscar Wilde

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#53. It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

Dan Millman

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#54. Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

Benjamin Barber

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#55. Obscurity and a competence - that is the life that is best worth living.

Mark Twain

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#56. So far, I've only discovered four things that make life worth living for me. My work is one of them." "What are the other three?" Jacob wanted to know. "Music, books, and sex," I said. "Not necessarily in that order." His eyebrows

Tiffanie DeBartolo

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#57. I found a piece of paradise to call my own, and life is worth living again, for to love you, to me, is to live.

Larry Graham

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#58. Life is always more beautiful and worth living when you are capable of enjoying the beauty of nature

Munia Khan

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#59. If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.

Arthur Miller

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#60. ( ... )while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

Robert McKee

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#61. I love the time I spend with you. You make my living worth-while. Why dint I meet you before. I wish I could start my life From the beginning with you because the time I spend with you is never enough. I need you more everyday.

Anne Frank

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#62. I wait. I don't know how long it will take his reproductive organs to decide life is worth living again, but I'm stuck here until they do.

Jessica Martinez

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#63. I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you ... And you ... And you ... Gotta give em hope.

Harvey Milk

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#64. Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Kurt Vonnegut

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#65. Life is a journey worth living.

Aubrey Moore

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#66. No matter how shallow and dull things might get, this life is worth living.

Haruki Murakami

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#67. The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.

Paul Bowles

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#68. A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.

Christopher Buehlman

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#69. Nothing feels dirtier than living a life that is not your own. No amount of money is worth my soul. I would rather be homeless and go out in a blaze of glory than subject myself to a slow and steady death of apathy and government by my environment.

Chris Matakas

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#70. Unmitigated Blackness is coming to the realization that as fucked up and meaningless as it all is, sometimes it's the nihilism that makes life worth living.

Paul Beatty

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#71. Solitude is a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

Coleman Barks

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#72. Life is not perfect. But it is how you face it that's worth living for. From there you will find out how beautiful it is to live.

Kcat Yarza

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#73. A life worth living is a life search for joy.

Debasish Mridha

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#74. The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.

Joseph Goebbels

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#75. It is a cumulative tragedy, the same tragedy that blights the entire country. With so many dead bodies, how do you begin to rebuild? How do you trust enough to hope? And how do you hold on to life when it no longer seems worth living?

Vanessa Woods

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#76. An unconsidered life is not one worth living.

Socrates

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#77. I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.

Hulk Hogan

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#78. I'm convinced that no life is worth living if it is not lived for God's glory.

Rebekah Snyder

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#79. I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

Dan Savage

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#80. You're gonna miss each and every shot you can't be bothered to take. That's not living life
that's just being a tourist. Take every shot, Kate. If it's worth caring about, no matter how impossible you think it is
you take the shot.

Matt Fraction

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#81. Master of masters,
O maker of heroes,
Thunder the brave,
Irresistible message:
'Life is worth living
Through every grain of it
From the foundations
To the last edge
Of the cornerstone, death.

William Ernest Henley

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#82. That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

George Santayana

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#83. The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.

Alexandra Stoddard

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#84. We give them material things and take delight in their delight in possessions. Then we hope that somewhere down the line they will see that a life worth living is found only in knowing and serving God.

Tedd Tripp

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#85. Negative thought saps a person's strength.
Positive thought is healthy to the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#86. Somentimes challenging and different and risky is what makes life worth living.

Jennifer Archer

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#87. Human knowledge is one thing, human wellbeing another. There is no predetermined harmony between the two. The examined life may not be worth living.

John N. Gray

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#88. Dogs are never in a bad mood over something you said at breakfast. Dogs never sniff at the husks of old conversations, or conduct autopsies on weekends gone wrong. An unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is hell. We talk too much.

Abigail Thomas

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#89. Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life is definitely worth living, whether you're working or not. For an actor, the character is the thing ... it doesn't matter what medium you're in. as long as you have something to do.

Elizabeth Mitchell

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#90. The unlived life is not worth examining ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.

Jo Coudert

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#91. Before, I always lived in anticipation ... that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.

Etty Hillesum

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#92. Self worth is not measured by what you have, no matter how full your life is. Rather, it comes from what you are, how authentically you're really living your life, and how much you are willing to give.

Shannon L. Alder

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#93. Love is not necessary to life, but it is what makes life worth living." - Anon

C.J. Duggan

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#94. Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.

Frederick Buechner

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#95. Any life worth living is going to have risks

Richelle Mead

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#96. No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Moliere

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#97. Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

Carl Jung

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#98. ..there is a lot of gray between life and death. Life isn't worth living if you aren't with the ones you love.

Melissa West

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#99. It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

George Bernard Shaw

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#100. The very essence of leadership is you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.
Whatever you value, be committed to it and let nothing distract you from this goal. The uncommitted life, like Plato's unexamined life, is not worth living.

Theodore M. Hesburgh

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