Life Worth Living Quotes (page 4)

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• time
• curiosity
• life

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

• life
• worth
• life is

An unconsidered life is not one worth living. Socrates

• soul
• deep
• serious

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. Sean O'Casey

• college life
• him
• thoughts

He had just graduated from college...and he wanted to decide whether life was worth living. He did not know that this was the question in his mind. He did not think of dying. He thought only that he wished to find joy and reason and meaning in life-and that none had been offered to him anywhere. Ayn Rand

• life
• investigating
• worth

a life without investigation is not worth living Plato

• alone
• friends
• fighting

Do you know what it is to play a part? To split your personality deliberately for twenty-four hours a day? Even when with friends? Even when alone, so that you will never forget inadvertently? To be a dilettante? To be eternally amused? To be of no account? To be so effete and faintly ridiculous that you have convinced all who know you of your own worthlessness? All so that your life may be safe even though it means it has become barely worth living. But even so, once in a while I... Isaac Asimov

• life
• knowledge
• common

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow. Albert Camus

• wonder
• understanding
• happy

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

• beauty
• beautiful
• affection

If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the... Aldous Huxley

• life
• philosophical
• philosophy

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy Albert Camus

• life
• oedipus
• unexamined life

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

• life
• necessary
• not worth it

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

• life
• best
• life and living

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living. Mark Twain

• father
• life
• author

You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master. Chuck Palahniuk

• life
• dog
• writing

Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living. Gustave Flaubert