Life Is Not Worth Living Quotes - Page 2

• Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

  Johnny Ball

  Birthday, Effort, Tragedy

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• Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

  Brendan Gill

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

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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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• It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

  Dan Millman

  Life, May, Action

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• Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Life, Important, Therapeutic

  Irvin D. Yalom (2012). “Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy”, p.36, Basic Books

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

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)

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• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Inspirational Life, Believe, Use

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• 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

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too; we cannot simply treat life as a psychedelic trip through a series of novel sensations.

  Tim Harford

  New Experiences, Discipline, People

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• Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Men, Nihilism

  "The Closing of the American Mind". Book by Allan Bloom, pp. 157-158, 1987.

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• Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Passion, Emotional, Burning

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.

  Paul Robeson

  Men, Western Values, Creative

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• Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Wine, Mean

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• But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all end?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, "Why are we here?" and, to the question, "What moral instructions do you give us?", the science-god maintains silence.

  Neil Postman

  God, People, Giving

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• We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

  Thomas Szasz

  Life Is, Should, Cognitive Therapy

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1989). “Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry: An Inquiry Into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices”, p.255, Syracuse University Press

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• We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

  Laurie Colwin

  Fellowship, Life Is, Knows

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• I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'

  Arianna Huffington

  Good Life, College, Greek

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• An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.

  Ergun Caner

  Life Is, Unexamined Life, Worth Living

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• A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Heart, Sacrifice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day; nobody thinks that it can possibly have
  any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Thinking, Tea

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Want, Way, Life Is

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.

  Joy Behar

  Believe, Life Is, Said

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• 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

  Self, Feelings, Age

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• Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Booty, Life Is

  "Titus" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

  A.C. Grayling

  Life, Integrity, Real

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