Quotes About Life Not Worth Living

#1. Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

Carter Burwell

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Why should anyone make a living to maintain a life not worth living?

P.I. Villaraza

#6. A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

Kirk Hammett

#7. 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

#8. 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

#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

#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

#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

#12. 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

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

Joel Salatin

#14. 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

#15. Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

Dale Dauten

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. A life without tragedy would not be worth living. We

Edward Abbey

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

Walter Benjamin

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Adam Leipzig

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#24. Life before toilet paper was not worth living.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. 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

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

Raymond Blanc

#27. The over examined life, Claire, it's not worth living.

Colum McCann

#28. 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

#29. Sane, reasonable, play-it-safe people are not sufficiently engaged in life to generate great stories. Instead, they sit back and wait for a leader-storyteller to come along and get them caught up in a life worth living.

Dan B. Allender

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Dan Millman

#33. 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

#34. The overexamined life... It's not worth living.

Colum McCann

#35. 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

#36. ( ... )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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. The supreme good - to examine everything - a life which was not devoted to such research would not be worth living. Happiness would thus consist in their never-ending quest. PLATO

Alexandra Stoddard

#41. 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

#42. And who the hell was that twiggy bitch?" As soon as it's out of my mouth I regret it. All my life I've had a body worth commenting on and if living in my skin has taught me anything it's that if it's not your body, it's not yours to comment on. Fat. Skinny. Short. Tall. It doesn't matter. But

Julie Murphy

#43. 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

#44. 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

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

Socrates

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

Rebekah Snyder

#47. 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

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

George Santayana

#49. Don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#50. It's the process of making-do,
of the life I've lived between
breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life
worth living.
I could not bear a life
with everything perfect.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

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

C.J. Duggan

#57. 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

#58. When you refuse to settle for less than the best ... the best tends to track you down.

Mandy Hale

#59. Do you think maybe your writing isn't going anymore because you're unhappy? Because you're not living the life you could? A life worth writing about? You must know that cliche-write what you know-but what do you know, Bree, when you shut the world out?

Holly Bourne

#60. If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

Etty Hillesum

#61. Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

Dean Karnazes

#62. It's not what you have, but whom you love that makes life worth living.

Val Stasik

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

George Bernard Shaw

#64. 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

#65. The unexplored life is not worth living!

Plato

#66. A life worth living, and work worth doing - that is what I want for children (and all people), not just, or not even, something called 'a better education.

John Holt

#67. Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Johnny Ball

#68. So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.

Muriel Barbery

#69. Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#70. Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#71. The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

Mark Twain

#72. How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?

Quintus Ennius

#73. You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

Anne Fortier

#74. A life without criticism is not worth living.

Robert Kennedy

#75. The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

Shirley Maclaine

#76. Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.

O.R. Melling

#77. A life without sweets is not much worth living.

Pawan Mishra

#78. My life as a princes, or a peasant, is not worth living without you in it.

Victoria Alexander

#79. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#80. 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

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

Samuel Butler

#82. Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

Tom Robbins

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Plato

#86. When life gets tough, when you're overwhelmed with doubt, or when you wonder if living for Christ is worth the effort, remember that you are not home yet. At death you won't leave home - you'll go home.

Rick Warren

#87. The perfect life is not worth living. There would be nothing to look forward to. The imperfect life is perfect.

Ted Agon

#88. 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

#89. It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.

W. Somerset Maugham

#90. Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.

Robert Thier

#91. I tell people not to be afraid of their fears; because their fears are not there to scare them, they're there to let them know that something is worth it. Yet I am often afraid. I guess that means in my life, lots of things have been worth it!

C. JoyBell C.

#92. Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

Deborah Levy

#93. You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

Martial

#94. 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

#95. All my life I've had a body worth commenting on and if living in my skin has taught me anything it's that if it's not your body, it's not yours to comment on.

Julie Murphy

#96. The unemotional life is not worth living.

Marty Rubin

#97. Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

William Sloane Coffin

#98. I had never really stopped thinking of how the smartest person I knew had, after much thought, decided that life was not worth it - that she'd be better off not living - and how was I supposed to live after that?

Catherine Lacey

#99. A Life without criticism and status is not a worth living.

Socrates

#100. Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have abilities that they do not share. That should be elementary.

Noam Chomsky