Worth Living Quotes (page 4)

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• life
• life sayings
• wellness

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

• time
• thinking
• eating

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

• 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

• life
• moments
• die

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

• 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

• sometimes
• difficult
• kindness

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. Carl Jung

• life
• best
• life and living

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

• wellness
• tomorrow
• bridge

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