Life Is Not Worth Living Quotes

Life Is Not Worth Living Quotes by Sidney Hook, Walter Bagehot, Laurie Colwin, Plato, Emile M. Cioran, Mel Brooks and many others.

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Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
Sidney Hook
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
Laurie Colwin
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
Plato
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one’s reach.
Emile M. Cioran
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.
Mel Brooks
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Socrates
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.
Socrates
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer…. offered a new version of Socrates’ famous saying, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, “The too-examined life is not worth living either.
John Leo
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.
Mother Teresa
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.
Ergun Caner
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Will Durant
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
Walter Benjamin
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.
Thomas Szasz