Top 100 Worth Living For Quotes
#1. You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
Agatha Christie
#2. I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.
Sayed Kashua
#3. Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
A.J. Muste
#4. There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom Robbins
#5. 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
#6. People do what they have to do to survive, and if they're lucky, they just might find something worth living for.
Lexi DeHalo
#7. The fear of death didn't have much hold when you had nothing worth living for.
Lisa Kessler
#8. A baby is a small member of the home that makes love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, the bank roll smaller, the home happier, the clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. - Laurens van der Post and Jane Taylor
David Jeremiah
#9. We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for
Mark Batterson
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. The smile he gives me is worth living for.
Nicola Yoon
#13. The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
Marcus Aurelius
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Brother, when you've been here as long as I have, you'll come to discover there are only one or two essential things worth living for. Unique to you and you alone. My honor is one of them for me. I keep my honor by keeping the relic out of their hands.
Brodi Ashton
#17. Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for.
John Newman
#18. Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.
Francine Rivers
#19. If there were nothing else, reading would
obviously
be worth living for.
Nuala O'Faolain
#20. It's a hard thing to accept that someone wants you dead. It forces you to decide if you have anything worth living for.
Scott Overton
#21. 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
#22. The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
Booker T. Washington
#23. 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
#24. If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
Hamilton Fish
#26. We are not trying to solve the world's problems ... However, even in the midst of hatred and killing, there are things worth living for. A wonderful encounter, or a thing of beauty can still exist.
Hayao Miyazaki
#27. 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
#28. Tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That's why we've got to make sure we pass it on.
Billie Letts
#29. Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.
C. G. Jung
#30. Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.'
Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.'
And anything worth dying for,' answered the sacrilegious old man, 'is certainly worth living for.
Joseph Heller
#31. Look, Daniel, at my age either you begin to see things for what they are or you're pretty much done for. Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is manure
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#32. Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.
Anita Roddick
#33. So I left my wonderfully intelligent family and soaked myself in the bath and considered drowning myself. Then I remembered I still had chocolate cake left over from yesterday so I came back up for air. Some things are worth living for.
Cecelia Ahern
#34. [A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
Joseph Heller
#35. Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet - for me, anyway - all that's worth living for lies in that charm?
Donna Tartt
#36. The gospel of Jesus Christ is worth living for, yes, and it is worth dying for, of course, but we show it is supremely valuable to us when we deny ourselves and take up our crosses to be a blessing to the people who the gospel is calling us to.
Matt Chandler
#37. Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is shit.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#38. See, the thing is Piper, it's really the only thing that's worth living for."
"Love,
Heather Hepler
#39. And love ... love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too.
J.R. Ward
#40. Purpose is the most important thing worth living for
Sunday Adelaja
#41. There's something about Lily that makes all the terrible parts of me seem irrelevant. That makes a bad day momentary and a good one infinite.
It's love like this that's worth living for.
Krista Ritchie
#42. Until you realize love's the only thing worth living for in the first place
Katie Kacvinsky
#43. Did she struggle for life only out of habit, or because some part of her still hoped that there was something worth living for?
Octavia E. Butler
#44. When everything considered valuable in life is seen to be nothing in comparison to the glory of Christ, you learn rather well that Christ alone is worth living for.
Matt Chandler
#45. There is a greater will, a greater need and purpose hidden within each life, and there is an inner law that knows best how each must live and that is worth stealing for; it's worth dying for, and worth living for as well.
Michael Meade
#46. What was the point of finding something worth living for if my life was no longer in my own hands?
Brodi Ashton
#47. Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for.
Ogwo David Emenike
#48. 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
#49. School has ruined cinema.It's official. There's nothing worth living for.
Stephanie Perkins
#50. Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#52. If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#53. Make your life worth living for, by living for the One who values it.
Anya VonderLuft
#54. Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
Whittaker Chambers
#56. 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
#57. What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue?
Donna Tartt
#58. If I should sell my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for.
Henry David Thoreau
#59. There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.
Raul Julia
#60. There is a greater purpose to living which is found in the spirit, which is the Being, and that purpose is worth living for.
Belsebuub
#61. Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot
#62. There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
Elisabeth Elliot
#63. My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.
Jon Foreman
#64. In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.
Robert Casey
#65. I'll tell you the only real truth. Cunt is where it all begins and where it all ends. Cunt is the only thing worth living for. Everything else is a fake, a fraud and just shit.
Mario Puzo
#66. 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
#68. Teachings about the "infantile-perverse-criminal" unconscious have led people to make a dangerous monster out of the unconscious, that really very natural thing. As if all that is good, reasonable, beautiful and worth living for had taken up its abode in consciousness!
C. G. Jung
#70. Live for yourself there's no one else more worth living for.
Neil Peart
#71. Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.
A.J. Darkholme
#72. I stepped into the shadows, telling myself not to be afraid. Yet I knew I would either find something worth living for or I would stay dead.
Zachary Koukol
#73. Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
#74. Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.
Katherine Mansfield
#76. Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life. And love ... love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too. -Tohrment
J.R. Ward
#77. He spent three months in a wash of depression and self-pity that bordered the suicidal. But even that solution was denied him by his new found nihilism. If nothing was worth living for it followed , didn't it , that there was nothing worth dying for either.
Clive Barker
#78. Namely, the feeling of the total and ultimate meaninglessness of their lives. They lack the awareness of a meaning worth living for. They are haunted by the experience of their inner emptiness, a void within themselves; they are caught in that situation which I have called the existential vacuum.
Viktor E. Frankl
#79. Why do you live?
Because I have something worth living for.
J.K. Rowling
#80. What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.
Jay Parini
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and worth of each living creature. Too bad we forget so often.
Joan D. Chittister
#84. AT THE CENTER of Wilson's work was an attempt to solve a deceptively simple puzzle: what makes life worth living when we are old and frail and unable to care for ourselves?
Atul Gawande
#85. As I look back on the time I've spent with him, loving him, learning him, I'm grateful for the moments. Because in the end, it's the moments that make life worth living ...
Marie Hall
#86. A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.
Mother Teresa
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. [For the French] time ... is an ephemeral currency and should be spent doing the things that make life worth living.
Debra Ollivier
#91. I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.
Elif Shafak
#92. What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life
Friedrich Nietzsche
#93. People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.
Amy Grant
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades ... I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.
Cyndi Lauper
#98. Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
Henry Cloud
#99. 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
#100. Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?
Mira Grant
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