Words matter. These are the best Worth Living Quotes from famous people such as Gilbert Parker, Moliere, Harold Pinter, Nora Ephron, Samuel Butler, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
I don’t think any day is worth living without thinking about what you’re going to eat next at all times.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
Europe’s leaders need to sit down with Socrates for a night; a life unexamined is not worth living. We have to remember that, as he says, the pursuit of wealth should never be at the expense of wisdom.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Your life is always worth living.
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.
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.
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.
Europe’s leaders need to sit down with Socrates for a night; a life unexamined is not worth living. We have to remember that, as he says, the pursuit of wealth should never be at the expense of wisdom.
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.
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.
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
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.
Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
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.
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.
Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
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.
You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
Feelings of loss and loneliness are inevitable when much of what makes life worth living is taken away.
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Everyone should have hair. When you get dressed up, you must do that last whip of hair spray, or life’s not worth living.
‘Music Is Worth Living For’ is an exaltation of my love for music itself. It’s also me pleading with myself to recognize music’s eternal power and glory, in the face of hardship and pain.
I don’t think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That’s what makes life interesting and worth living.
I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life – full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.
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.
Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
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.
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.
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
You can hit the lowest low and face the darkest dark, but you can always get back up and get in the light. All of this is what actually makes life worth living.
Before operating on a patient’s brain… I must first understand his mind: his identity, his values, what makes his life worth living, and what devastation makes it reasonable to let that life end.
To be able to look life in the face: that’s worth living in a garret for, isn’t it?
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.
I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life – full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.
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.
I play guys who are willing to go really far. If the dung really hits the fan, I don’t know if I could walk the talk. But anyone who isn’t willing to die for his convictions isn’t worth living. My characters, no matter how demented they are, they have their convictions.
I believe that a world that doesn’t have some kind of magic in it wouldn’t be worth living in.
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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.
Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
I don’t think any day is worth living without thinking about what you’re going to eat next at all times.
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.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
Your life is always worth living.
You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
As a parent, it’s my responsibility to equip my child to do this – to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don’t know what happens after death.
Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
‘Music Is Worth Living For’ is an exaltation of my love for music itself. It’s also me pleading with myself to recognize music’s eternal power and glory, in the face of hardship and pain.
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.
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.
Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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