Worth Living Quotes

Obscurity and a competencethat is the life that is best worth living.
- Mark Twain

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.
- Diane Ackerman

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

a life without investigation is not worth living
- Plato

It might be a dungeon
of suffering and pain full
yet this life is worth living
and this world is beautiful.
- Jyoti Arora

Emma leaned over to where their faces were only inches apart. Since you think you know everything, tell me if you understand this. Have you ever wanted something so bad you think you'd die if you don't have it? That the mere thought of it keeps you up at night. You can't sleep, you can't eat, you can't drink. You are so consumed by that desire nothing else matters, and you're not sure life is worth living if you can't have it.
- Katie Ashley

Have you ever wanted something so bad you think you'd die if you don't have it? That the mere thought of it keeps you up at night. You can't sleep, you can't eat, you can't drink. You are so consumed by that desire nothing else matters, and you're not sure life is worth living if you can't have it.
- Katie Ashley

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
- David Attenborough

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

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

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

Thank you. (Nykyrian)
For what? (Kiara)
For giving me a life worth living. I know I'm not worth it, and that I don't deserve it, but I swear to the gods I finally believe in that I will spend every moment I have left making you happy and trying to be worthy of you. (Nykyrian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Some kisses are worth living for
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
- Albert Camus

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.
- L M Montgomery

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
- Walter Benjamin

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.
- Francesca Lia Block

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

There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.
- T C Boyle

In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because I'm stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcie's list of things worth living for. For some reason, I keep seeing her rolling her eyes at me, that big, goofy grin stretching her face like Silly Putty. On my private list, I add her smile. She doesn't have to know.
- Libba Bray

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
- James Broughton

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
- Samuel Butler

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
- Albert Einstein

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
- Albert Einstein

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
- Paracelsus

Because I don't want you forgetting how different our circumstances are. If you die, and I live, there's no life for me at all back in District Twelve. You're my whole life, I would never be happy again. It's different for you. I'm not saying it wouldn't be hard. But there are other people who'd make your life worth living.
- Suzanne Collins

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
- William James

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
- William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

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

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
- Whittaker Chambers

Tell others
When you love them.
This will really make their lives
Worth living.
- Sri Chinmoy

Life is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple
- Agatha Christie

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple
- Agatha Christie

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

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.
- Cyril Connolly

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

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

If life is worth living for so is it worth dying.
- Santosh Kalwar

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.
- Richard Dawkins

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

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. 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.

- Kurt Vonnegut

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 the same. Only love.
- Johnny Depp

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
- Annie Dillard

What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.
- Bob Dole

Is life worth living simply because you live, or is it worth more if you make life happen?
- Jaycee Dugard

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.
- Bob Marley

Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.
- Henry James

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

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

Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living.
- T S Eliot

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
- Elisabeth Elliot

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

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.
- Friedrich Engels

I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.
- Nora Ephron

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

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

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
- Gustave Flaubert

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
- Stephen Fry

No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.
- Gena Showalter

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

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
- Robert Fulghum

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
- Richard Le Gallienne

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

Thousands of people who say they love animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs.
- Jane Goodall

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
- Martha Graham

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
- Tom Robbins

If a girl wants to grow up to be a cowgirl, she ought to be able to do it, or else this world ain't worth living in.
- Tom Robbins

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
- Tom Robbins

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
- Zane Grey

If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.
- Sam Harris

...[A]nything worth dying for... is certainly worth living for.
- Joseph Heller

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

If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth living.
- Aleksandar Hemon

Why are you still alive?"
"Because I have something worth living for.
- J K Rowling

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel

I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.
- Hulk Hogan

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

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

Until you realize love's the only thing worth living for in the first place
- Katie Kacvinsky

We're taught to love only a few people. We think it's this sacred resource, like we'll run out of it at some point. But the more you love, the more it's returned to you. Hands down. You can't argue with that."
"Maybe," I say. "Or maybe you stop giving it so freely because one day it's taken away and it hurts so much, you need to protect yourself."
She know what I'm referring to. "Until you realize love's the only think worth living for in the first place.
- Katie Kacvinsky

Most people never get there. They're afraid or unwilling to demand enough of themselves and take the easy road, the path of least resistance. But struggling and suffering, as I now saw it, were the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not constantly demanding more from yourself--expanding and learning as you go--your choosing a numb existence. Your denying yourself an extraordinary trip.
- Dean Karnazes

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

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

The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.
- Russell Kirk

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

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

There's no such thing as one, true way'; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good they're the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.
- Mercedes Lackey

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
- R D Laing

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.
- Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.
- Kenneth Scott Latourette

...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

Then tell them we've all got meanness in us...But tell them 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

The rescue of drowning men is... a duty worth dying for, but not worth living for. It seems to me that all political duties (among which I include military duties) are of this kind. A man may have to die for our country, but no man must, in an exclusive sense, live for his country.
- C S Lewis

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!
- Jack London

When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn't any reclaiming it or revising it.
- Gregory Maguire

Of course if you stare at the sky long enough you're bound to get dizzy eventually...the key is harnessing that sense of displacement, never forgetting it, so as to enable one to employ it at will. Simply walking through life without a sense of physical, if not emotional, disembowelment, is not a life worth living.
- Dave Matthes

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
- W Somerset Maugham

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
- Guy De Maupassant

The over examined life, Claire, it's not worth living.
- Colum Mccann

They say an unexamined life is not worth living
- Joan Medlicott

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

If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.
- Arthur Miller

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

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

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.
- Nuala O Faolain

I know many lives worth living.
- Mary Oliver

If you know something bad is coming, can't you plan to avoid it or try to do something differently?" said Charles.
Probably", said the Cartographer, "but then the good events would have no flavor. The joy you find in life is paid for by suffering that comes later, just as sometimes, the suffering is redeemed by a joy unexpected. That's the trade that makes a life worth living.
- James A Owen

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

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

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

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

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

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
- Harold Pinter

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
- Henri Poincare

Love for children is the enormous untapped power that can wake us up to the profound changes we need to make if we're to have a future worth living.
- Raffi

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

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

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.
- Francine Rivers

Denying yourself a life of personal freedom is denying yourself of a life worth living.
- Michelle D Rosado

A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.
- R A Salvatore

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
- George Santayana

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.
- Dan Savage

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

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

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

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.
- Andrew Solomon

The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.
- Alexandra Stoddard

It was perfect moments like that that made all the bad ones worth living through.
- Keary Taylor

Life is not worth living unless you live it for the One who gave you life.
- Anya Vonderluft

And love ... love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too.
- J R Ward

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

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
- Edith Wharton

We do not live so that we can eat, nor do we just eat so that we can live. Life is worth living in and of itself. Life cannot be satisfied when it is lived out as a consuming entity. When it is filled by that which satisfies a hunger that is both physical and spiritual in a mutuality that sustains both without violation of either, only then can life be truly fulfilling.
- Ravi Zacharias