Life Is Worth Living Quotes

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.

Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense of aliveness that came from writing fiction. I’m still that way. My life is worth living when I’ve completed a good paragraph.

I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That’s what it all comes down to.

The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It’s like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living when you come down you may have some doubts.

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.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

A new question has arisen in modern man’s mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living…No sensible answer can be given to the question…because the question does not make any sense.

It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities – life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.

The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, … underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself.

Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It’s worth being bashed against. It’s worth getting scarred by. It’s worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

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

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!