Quotes on Life Is Not Worth Living

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.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

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

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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

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

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. 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.

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