Top 100 Quotes About Reason For Living
#1. What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
Albert Camus
#2. I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I can't imagine any more of them.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#3. The reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
William Faulkner
#4. The closer you get to your dream, the more your personal legend becomes your real reason for living.
Paulo Coelho
#5. Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.
Jo Nesbo
#6. I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. And
William Faulkner
#7. I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.
Sonia Johnson
#8. The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.
Brian Tracy
#9. The things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don't are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It's our burden.
Craig Groeschel
#10. In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.
Anais Nin
#11. Don't. Ever. Fucking. Threaten. Me. Or push me away. Or let Bratva come between us. Bratva's not a problem -- Bratva is our reason for living. You are my reason for living. You're property - my property. You carry my mark.
Suzanne Steele
#12. A man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.
Paul Bowles
#13. Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
Toni Cade Bambara
#14. Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
Dale T. Mortensen
#15. Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.
Richard Dean Anderson
#16. I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best and live my maximum life.
Eric Thomas
#17. Discover the joy of giving and you will discover the reason for living.
Mark Victor Hansen
#18. The Animal does not question lif. It lives. It's very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life.
Ray Bradbury
#19. You don't decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living.
Bob Proctor
#20. If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries.
Harold Klemp
#21. If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create.
Sharon Tate
#22. life is the reason for living and death is the reason for dying if we are to live, why die ? there is a ending for everything and being alive gives us a chance to do something and enjoy it.
Pamela
#23. Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.
John Green
#24. I am beautiful and beauty is my reason for living.
Paulo Coelho
#25. Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.
Vanna Bonta
#26. Never again, she vowed, would she live a noisy life that killed her dreams. They were her reason for living, the only thing that she had to give to the world, and she must live in the way that suited them best.
Elizabeth Goudge
#27. I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.
Frida Kahlo
#28. I'd do anything for you." And she knew he meant it. "Even before you healed me, you gave my life back, a reason for living. I adore you, I worship you. I love you beyond all reason.
Ava Gray
#29. So many people live life without knowing the life they are living. We must get a reasonable reason for living
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#30. We do not hunt them because we want to save humanity. We hunt them because we like killing them. More than a calling, this is everything to us, our only true reason for living. The hollow place in our hearts are filled with each of their deaths.
We will never stop.
Menton3
#31. Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now.
Raymond Charles Barker
#32. We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living.
Richard Dawkins
#33. So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.
Paulo Coelho
#34. To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.
Albert Camus
#35. As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
#36. People do kill themselves, you know, Miranda, when they think their whole reason for living is being taken away from them. Even the fact that other people think their suffering is a joke isn't enough to shake them out of it.
Robert Galbraith
#37. Durer would have seen a reason for living
in a town like this
Marianne Moore
#38. If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science.
Tom Peters
#39. Without the interplay of human against human, the chief interest in life is gone; most of the intellectual values are gone; most of the reason for living is gone.
Isaac Asimov
#40. In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.
Brodi Ashton
#41. Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
Tom O'Connor
#43. Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.
Gao Xingjian
#44. We all have a reason for living I am blessed mine has two eyes a heartbeat and calls me mum.
Nikki Rowe
#45. I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
Antonin Artaud
#46. I realized it didn't mean anything without Perry by my side. She was my reason for living. She was the reason I'd come alive in the first place.
Karina Halle
#47. Who wants to become a writer? And why? ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower of life, even if it's a cactus.
Enid Bagnold
#48. There are cities that are damned for some people by the mere fact that they seem created to close off the distances that are the only reason for living.
Julien Gracq
#49. Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love ... it is not surprising that we keep looking for love. All of us are nothing but vibrations of love. We are sustained by love, and in the end we merge back into love ...
Swami Muktananda
#50. The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.
Chris Hedges
#51. It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.
Marcel Duchamp
#52. If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
Garth Brooks
#53. I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.
Ray Bradbury
#54. How the hell did people do this, this emotion-and-forgiveness thing? How did they stand these feelings? She could barely handle it and she had lovely, necessary, reason-for-living drugs to smooth over the rough spots. How did people do this shit sober?
Stacia Kane
#55. When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way.
Abbi Glines
#56. Everyone on this earth was born for a reason, what's yours?
Frank Sonnenberg
#58. The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got.
Stephen King
#59. We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#60. I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers.
Dana Gould
#61. What is the point of finding the reason as long as you know that you are on the right path? And I have realized lately that the right path is the one where you feel happy within yourself, at ease within yourself. - The Monk (Pg-95)
Shashi
#62. Another reason for right living is that you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for the coming of our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. ROMANS 13:11
Francine Rivers
#63. Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey ... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.
Gene Simmons
#64. Death is not a resident of the house. 'Death' is merely the name we give to certain rooms of the house, rooms that we, the so-called 'living,' fear for the simple reason that we have not passed through them.
Tom Robbins
#65. The battle for the lead between faith and reason can be settled by accepting the guiding hand of an experienced navigator.
Elaine Orabona Foster
#66. Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.
Nalini Singh
#67. Darwinism can be used to back up two mad moralities, but it cannot be used to back up a single sane one. The kinship and competition of all living creatures can be used as a reason for being insanely cruel or insanely sentimental; but not for a healthy love of animals.
G.K. Chesterton
#68. For the first time in three years, Travis Cornell felt needed, felt a deep connection with another living creature. For the first time in three years, he had a reason to live. He
Dean Koontz
#69. There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
Damon Lindelof
#70. What am I dying for? he cried back. I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#72. There was no point in living in fear of death, or questioning the reason for my existence because as far as I knew, I was not in complete control of my life, nor can any other person be.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#73. I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth.
Ricky Gervais
#74. The only reason I am living is to express my love for you and for the universe.
Debasish Mridha
#75. I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident; everything happens for a reason. I believe that standing for what you believe in isn't an easy thing but it's the right thing to do; be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.
Roy Bennett
#76. I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.
Colin Firth
#77. One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
Madeleine L'Engle
#78. For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.
Vine Deloria Jr.
#79. The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.
Ted Turner
#80. Life isn't fair, but living? Living is heaven. Living is a gift. Every gift is different - every path is different - for some reason this is ours, and the sooner we accept it, the sooner we can stop crying and start living.
Rachel Van Dyken
#81. If you were truly 'here for me,' you would have a Kahlua in one hand and Henry Cavill's number in the other. Since I'm not having drunken phone sex with Superman, there must be another reason you're darkening my living room.
Naima Simone
#82. Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense of purpose and pleasure in your life.
Karen Katafiasz
#83. Long life, short life-did it matter when each day was the same, when humans were incapable of living for the moment because of their fundamental need for order, for the comfort of everyday routine.
Gemma Malley
#84. Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident
Jean-Paul Sartre
#85. All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living
Gregory Of Nazianzus
#86. Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Ani DiFranco
#87. I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world, is discovery.
James Dean
#88. For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
Octavio Paz
#89. I've always warned my clients about fame being very dangerous, and unfortunately, they need to be famous to make a living, but not to be flippant with it, that it could kill them, and to always keep their eye on it. There was no reason for me to do it. I don't make my money off fame, not my fame.
Shep Gordon
#90. When we do something, we may not think about why we are doing what we are doing, says Oehler, for then it would suddenly be totally impossible for us to do anything.
Thomas Bernhard
#91. I'm surprised I'm still living. I ain't really make the best of decisions in my life, but for some reason, it missed me. It's weird - that's what I always think, like, "Maybe something's going to happen."
Fetty Wap
#92. There are so many great players walking the planet but it is rare to find musicians that can live life together in a way that isn't ego centric. For whatever reason, musicians are just bizarrely composed humans. I think I'm living in the middle of a miracle.
Crowder
#93. I'm also not an avid watcher of the show ['Walking Dead'] for no good reason. I think it's obviously a great show. I think it's a good comparison [to "Zoo"], because it is this apocalyptic world we're living in Season 2 of "Zoo."
James Wolk
#94. I don't dig ditches for a living, so I don't really hate going to work. I chose this for a reason. I would much prefer to be over-worked than under-worked.
Natalie Zea
#95. Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#96. Living is a conversation with no end, a dance with no steps, a song with no words, a reason too big for any mind.
Mark Nepo
#97. A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.
Mason Cooley
#98. You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.
C. JoyBell C.
#99. Surviving is one thing," he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for.
David Moody
#100. I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.
Alexis Korner
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