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• 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!

  Max Beckmann

  Giving, Lasts, Exhilaration

  Stephan Lackner, Max Beckmann (1983). “Max Beckmann”, Crown Pub

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

  R. D. Laing

  Love, Life, Psychology

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• 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.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Rejection, Effort, Intellectual

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.41, Routledge

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• Life is a beautiful struggle, but life is worth living

  Jaeson Ma

  Beautiful, Struggle, Life Is

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• 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.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Men, Mind

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• Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.

  Etty Hillesum

  Feelings, Preparation, Anticipation

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.39, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks like a stomach but, actually, his feet never get wet in the rain.

  Johnny Vegas

  Depression, Rain, Shopping

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• If life is worth living then it's worth recording.

  Shay Carl

  Life Is, Worth Living, Ifs

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• Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

  A. J. Muste

  Giving Up, Life Is, Quaker

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

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Messages, Life Is

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• 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.

  Sean O'Casey

  Laughter, Wine, Men

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• We do not live so that we can eat, nor do we just eat so that we can live. Life is worth living in and of itself. Life cannot be satisfied when it is lived out as a consuming entity. When it is filled by that which satisfies a hunger that is both physical and spiritual in a mutuality that sustains both without violation of either, only then can life be truly fulfilling.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Spiritual, Live Life, Life Is

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.53, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Life is worth Living
  Through every grain of it,
  From the foundations
  To the last edge
  Of the cornerstone, death.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Lasts, Foundation

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?

  Quintus Ennius

  Real, Self, Joy

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

  George Santayana

  Impossible, Aging, Assumption

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, ch. 10 (1905)

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

  Walter Benjamin

  Suicide, Character, Feelings

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.542, Harvard University Press

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• All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the common property of all thinking men. They must have something-something outside themselves, to make them feel life is worth living, that good rather than evil is the explanation of the world.

  Ronald Knox

  Loyalty, Thinking, Men

  Ronald Knox (2010). “In Soft Garments: Classic Catholic Apologetics”, p.105, Ignatius Press

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• 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.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Writing, Way, Fiction

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• 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.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Reality, Curiosity, Enthusiasm

  Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

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• Is life worth living?
  Yes, so long as there is wrong to right.
  So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives,
  And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives;
  While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will,
  And men are free to think and act,
  Life is worth living still.

  Alfred Austin

  Life, Men, Thinking

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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

  Betrayal, Cost, Hook

  Sidney Hook, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovskiĭ, Paul Hollander (1987). “Soviet hypocrisy and Western gullibility”

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• The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Tired, Suffering, Earth

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• The knowledge of reincarnation assures us that life is worth living. Life is not a one-shot deal. It is forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Live Life, Forever, Life Is

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• 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.

  Brian Greene

  Real, Analysis, Life Is

  Brian Greene (2005). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• 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.

  Jeff Buckley

  Age, Coal, Pouring

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