Top 45 The Only Life Worth Living Quotes
#1. The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.
Alexandra Stoddard
#2. 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
#3. A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
James Broughton
#4. Self-doubt was a luxury, as, perhaps, was the examined life. And yet the examined life, as the adage had it, was the only life worth living.
Alexander McCall Smith
#5. Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
John Eldredge
#6. The only life worth living was the unfree life ... the life in which you were chained to your one true wish, the wish to be simple and perfect.
Chad Harbach
#8. The examined life is the only life worth living.
Socrates
#9. Flow is more than an optimal state of consciousness - one where we feel our best and perform our best - it also appears to be the only practical answer to the question: What is the meaning of life? Flow is what makes life worth living.
Steven Kotler
#10. After all is said and done, what is life anyway? Aren't we all going to die in the end? I believe life is only worth living if, while we are on this earth, we can do honorable things.
Ayse Kulin
#11. I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. We're not a people worth saving, plain and simple. We're completely beyond that - both the undead and the few still living. Yeah, 'living.' Some life, huh? But it's the only life we could ever possibly live if we want to stay alive another day. It's our life that terrifies me.
Bryant A. Loney
#13. Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.
Robert Fulghum
#14. For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.
Robert Musil
#15. Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.
Carl Jung
#16. To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.
P.B. Kerr
#17. The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.
Soren Kierkegaard
#18. This is the only thing that makes life worth living. If you have succeeded in doing something you wanted to do, something that seemed impossible - well, then, make the most of it, with all your heart, to the very brim.
Ivan Turgenev
#19. I know that a lot of Christian kids rebel. But as I said earlier, I'm convinced that most of them don't really want to. They just haven't been given a better alternative. The only true antidote for a life of rebellion is a life worth living.
Tim Kimmel
#20. 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
#21. I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.
Anthony Burgess
#22. It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.
Robert E. Howard
#23. How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?
Rebecca Goldstein
#24. There are four questions of value 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 each is same. Only love.
Johnny Depp
#25. You can think of your body in two ways: 1. As mechanical, like an automobile worth only so many miles or 2. As a living breathing energetic vessel manifested from spirit. Either way will greatly effect the length and quality of your life. Choose wisely.
Gary Hopkins
#26. The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
Arundhati Roy
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#30. Only the possibility of carrying out a dream makes our life worth living.
Paulo Coelho
#31. Avoidance of boredom is the only worthy mode of action. Life otherwise is not worth living.)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#32. 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
#33. I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
Oscar Wilde
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Does sex make life worth living? Didn't you say, the other day, 'Our lives are only as good as our orgasms'?
Hanif Kureishi
#37. He'd lost the only part of his life that made it worth living because of a couple random fucks. How ridiculous.
Santino Hassell
#38. Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#39. Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#41. 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
#42. We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play.
Brian Sutton-Smith
#43. She's the only thing that's made my life worth living and if that's all I get, a few months with her- a few days, it's more than I've ever hoped for
(Luke)
Maggie Stiefvater
#44. You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living.
Martha Albrand
#45. Outside your comfort zone is the only place worth living.
Karina Bliss
