Top 100 Not Worth Living Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. A risk-free life is a life that's not worth living.
Joel Salatin
#5. 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
#6. How could you explain to someone that sometimes it was not worth living in the past when the past was all that they had worth living for?
Nicole Sobon
#7. A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.
Mother Teresa
#8. 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
#9. Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
Carter Burwell
#10. The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!
Adam Leipzig
#11. Avoidance of boredom is the only worthy mode of action. Life otherwise is not worth living.)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#13. If anyone does not have three minutes in his life to make an omelette, then life is not worth living.
Raymond Blanc
#14. The over examined life, Claire, it's not worth living.
Colum McCann
#15. 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
#16. It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
Dan Millman
#17. 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
#18. The overexamined life... It's not worth living.
Colum McCann
#19. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth. The
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. ( ... )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
#21. If you feel that without a certain person, or position, or achievement, your life would be not worth living, you may be deeper into idolatry than you think.
Colin S. Smith
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying for, it is not worth living for. Brave, godly martyrs throughout history have proven time and again that what we as Christians live for is worth dying for.
Phil Pringle
#25. I had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth
Kurt Vonnegut
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. The unexplored life is not worth living!
Plato
#29. Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#30. You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.
Anne Fortier
#32. The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.
Shirley Maclaine
#33. My life as a princes, or a peasant, is not worth living without you in it.
Victoria Alexander
#34. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#35. All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to give it a lethal injection. These are decisions that should be taken by parents - never the state - in consultation with their doctors.
Peter Singer
#36. Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
Tom Robbins
#37. People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.
Albert Camus
#38. The life which is not examined is not worth living.
Plato
#39. The perfect life is not worth living. There would be nothing to look forward to. The imperfect life is perfect.
Ted Agon
#40. One of the century's most famous intellectual pronouncements comes at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus: There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
William Styron
#41. Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.
Tim Gunn
#42. The unemotional life is not worth living.
Marty Rubin
#43. Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
William Sloane Coffin
#44. Why should anyone make a living to maintain a life not worth living?
P.I. Villaraza
#45. While most would agree with Socrates that, "the unexamined life is not worth living," a lesser-known quote by Sheldon Kopp might be more important here: "The unlived life is not worth examining.
Meg Jay
#46. Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are.
Jessie J.
#47. Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?
Erich Segal
#48. We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
Laurie Colwin
#50. I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'
Arianna Huffington
#51. We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.
Thomas Szasz
#52. What do you think Socrates meant when he said, "The unexamined life is not worth living"? Third,
Karen Armstrong
#53. If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?
Paul Kalanithi
#54. A world without books would be a world not worth living in.
Eugenia Argerami
#55. A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
Kirk Hammett
#56. We all know that the un-examined life is not worth living (socrates). But if all you are doing is examining, you are not living.
Adam Leipzig
#57. A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.
R.A. Salvatore
#59. Everyone should have hair. When you get dressed up, you must do that last whip of hair spray, or life's not worth living.
Charles Nelson Reilly
#60. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
Anthony Bourdain
#61. Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too; we cannot simply treat life as a psychedelic trip through a series of novel sensations.
Tim Harford
#63. You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.
Tom Hanks
#64. Life unexamined, is not worth living.
Democritus
#66. Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
Saul Bellow
#67. Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
Whittaker Chambers
#68. Life is not worth living unless you live it for the One who gave you life.
Anya VonderLuft
#69. In the end, it doesn't matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished - a life without heart is not worth living.
John Eldredge
#70. The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.
Colin Quinn
#71. Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.
Mother Teresa
#72. See the encounters of Jesus life as windows into possibilities for yours. Accept the invitation to go or strive to go through the narrow door. Choose between life and fear, for the unengaged life is truly not worth living, and has no possibility of salvation or abundance.
Katharine Jefferts Schori
#73. As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.
Joy Behar
#74. The world is surely not worth living now, is it?
Emily Bronte
#75. An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.
Ergun Caner
#76. You don't ever have to apologize for feeling, Marlin. Life's not worth living if we don't feel intensely.
Amanda Richardson
#77. Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.
Monica Seles
#78. When life seems not worth living, ten minutes in a library proves otherwise.
Miv Schaaf
#79. Maybe you think life is not worth living, but is death worth dying for?
Cesar Nascimento
#80. The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living
Socrates
#81. What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.
Os Guinness
#82. You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow, but peace today by sharing your heart's deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living.
Shannon L. Alder
#83. Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.
Sholem Asch
#84. Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.
Roger Ebert
#85. Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
Gilbert Parker
#86. Life without enquiry is not worth living.
Socrates
#87. Socrates once said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." I would expand on his thought by suggesting, "The unexamined society is not worth living in.
Eileen Workman
#88. You can't let other men impose their will on you or life's not worth living.
Mario Puzo
#89. A life without investigation is not worth living
Plato
#90. 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
#91. People with disabilities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living. (paraphrased, not a direct quote))
Helen Keller
#92. Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.
Dale Dauten
#93. I was beginning to realize that all the food in the world, and all the running shoes, could not make me happy. The material things were worthless. I had lost my family. I wasn't loved, I wasn't free, and I wasn't safe. I was alive, but everything that made life worth living was gone.
Yeonmi Park
#94. Living the gospel and standing in holy places is not always easy, but I testify that it is worth it.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
#95. The way we saw things, it didn't matter that God had created the heavens and the earth - he did not want us excited about living here. A good fundamentalist worth his weight in guilt was quick to remind any skeptic that the world was going to hell in a handbasket.
Matthew Paul Turner
#96. 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
#97. Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.
Henri Nouwen
#98. A life without tragedy would not be worth living. We
Edward Abbey
#99. The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
Walter Benjamin
#100. 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
