Worth Living Quotes - Page 10

• I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

  Max Beckmann

  Giving, Lasts, Exhilaration

  Stephan Lackner, Max Beckmann (1983). “Max Beckmann”, Crown Pub

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• Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!

  Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

  Happiness, Depth, Height

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• 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

  Beautiful, Nature, Knowing

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.318, Modern Library

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• 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

  Food, Cooking, Cheese

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.65, A&C Black

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• In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

  John Eldredge

  Heart, Matter, Ends

  John Eldredge (2005). “The Ransomed Heart: A Collection of Devotional Readings”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Dragons, World

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• Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Differences, Views

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• 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

  Worried, Human Bondage, Worst

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1876, eBookIt.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Curiosity, Calling

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• Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

  William Allen White

  Father, Heart, Past

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• Life without commitment is not worth living.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Love, Commitment

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in search of man: a philosophy of Judaism”

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• What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head of that list, with its "calumny" against life, its faith that just because nothing in life is eternal therefore life itself contains no value, nothing that makes it worth living, investing our souls in, committing our consciences to?

  Kenny Smith

  Life, Philosophy, Soul

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• 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

  Spiritual, Love Is, Roots

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• You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

  Anne Fortier

  Hurt, Life Hurts

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.272, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Passion, Thinking, Live Your Life

  "Q&A With Dan Savage: On Obama, Fox News’ Shepard Smith and Success of ‘It Gets Better’ Project". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2011.

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• Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.

  Monica Seles

  Funny Life, Pasta, Bread

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• 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

  Life, Opportunity, Dying

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Art, Sacrifice, Office

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.173, Psychology Press

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• I know many lives worth living.

  Mary Oliver

  Life Worth Living, Knows

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• 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

  Kindness, Would Be, May

  T.C. Boyle (1996). “The Tortilla Curtain”, p.147, Penguin

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• ...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

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• 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

  Real, Writing, Character

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.10, Penguin

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• 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

  Believe, Giving, Trying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.567, Macmillan

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• As a new mother, I want to give my children the best start in life but millions of children affected with AIDS don't live with such certainty. We can all do something to give them a future worth living for. We can make a difference in a child's life by joining with UNICEF to ensure that mothers and children are given the treatment that they deserve, in order to live a life free from HIV and AIDS.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Mother, Children, Order

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• If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Integrity, Principles, Ifs

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