Quotes on Worth Living

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women - not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.

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?

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.

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.

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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

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

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.

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple