Top 100 Life Is Worth Living Quotes
#1. Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
A.J. Muste
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!
Rihanna
#5. The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
Walter Benjamin
#6. 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
#8. 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
#9. If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.
Arthur Miller
#10. 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
#11. No matter how shallow and dull things might get, this life is worth living.
Haruki Murakami
#12. 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
#13. I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.
Hulk Hogan
#14. I'm convinced that no life is worth living if it is not lived for God's glory.
Rebekah Snyder
#15. 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
#16. That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
George Santayana
#17. 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
#18. The dedicated life is worth living. You must give your whole heart to whatever you do.
Annie Dillard
#19. The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living when you come down you may have some doubts.
Gyorgy Kepes
#20. Life is worth living because we find the ultimate joy of life through love.
Debasish Mridha
#21. A true friend is a friend for whom life is worth living.
Debasish Mridha
#22. If life is worth living then it's worth recording.
Shay Carl
#23. Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
Sidney Hook
#24. Because of dreams, success is worth pursuing. Because of love, life is worth living.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Life is a beautiful struggle, but life is worth living
Jaeson Ma
#26. If this beautiful life is worth living, it will be more worthy if you are loving.
Debasish Mridha
#27. If I find courage to believe that life is worth living, then I'm greatious of the opportunity to live on this planet
Sonny
#28. The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
Jeff Buckley
#29. Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
R.D. Laing
#30. It might be a dungeon
of suffering and pain full
yet this life is worth living
and this world is beautiful.
Jyoti Arora
#31. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
#33. I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living,
Hayao Miyazaki
#34. Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
Sean O'Casey
#35. There is always a hope for the living.
Life is worth living, no matter what situation you may have encounter.
No situations is permanent.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#36. And you'll return to real life. You need to live it to the fullest. No matter how shallow and dull things might get, this life is worth living. I guarantee it.
Haruki Murakami
#38. Life is worth living really but only if we believe it is, if we believe further that life is eternal not because the tissues last forever, but because the imagination never dies
F. Sionil Jose
#40. At those critical junctures, the question is not simply whether to live or die but what kind of life is worth living.
Paul Kalanithi
#41. The knowledge of reincarnation assures us that life is worth living. Life is not a one-shot deal. It is forever.
Frederick Lenz
#42. Life is worth living but not worth thinking about
Marty Rubin
#43. Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out.
James Hearst
#45. LIFE is WORTH LIVING when you find PURPOSE.
Nick Vujicic
#46. It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
Patrick Kavanagh
#47. A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living ... No sensible answer can be given to the question ... because the question does not make any sense.
Erich Fromm
#48. Every day of my life is worth living. Every day I spend by caring, sharing, and loving.
Debasish Mridha
#49. He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.
Alfred Austin
#50. I can truly say my life is worth living now because I've found someone worth dying for.
Sierra Rose
#51. The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself.
Herbert Marcuse
#52. Faith is always required. There are some things that cannot be proven. We believe that life is worth living. That is an article of faith. The purpose of life is to live, to resist death, perhaps to defy entropy.
George R R Martin
#53. I just want to show her that her life is worth living, that she can't let her past dictate her future.
S.A. Rolls
#54. Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.
L.M. Montgomery
#55. For those moments, life is worth living. Moments of kindness, caring, and loving.
Debasish Mridha
#56. This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James
#57. So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
E.W. Howe
#58. Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense of aliveness that came from writing fiction. I'm still that way. My life is worth living when I've completed a good paragraph.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#66. A risk-free life is a life that's not worth living.
Joel Salatin
#67. 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
#68. The most amazing thing that makes life worth living is your love.
Debasish Mridha
#69. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. It is the beauty of life that makes our lives worth living.
Debasish Mridha
#76. 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
#78. Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
William James
#79. 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
#80. [For the French] time ... is an ephemeral currency and should be spent doing the things that make life worth living.
Debra Ollivier
#81. Life is a long boring drive on an empty road punctuated by special moments that make the journey worth taking.
Chloe Thurlow
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!
Adam Leipzig
#85. Avoidance of boredom is the only worthy mode of action. Life otherwise is not worth living.)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#86. What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.
Steve Jobs
#88. 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
#89. If anyone does not have three minutes in his life to make an omelette, then life is not worth living.
Raymond Blanc
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
Oscar Wilde
#98. It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
Dan Millman
#99. 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
#100. Obscurity and a competence - that is the life that is best worth living.
Mark Twain
