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Worth Living Quotes - Page 2

The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

Marshall William Fishwick (1963). “Faust Revisited: Some Thoughts on Satan”

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5068, e-artnow

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.

"The Apology of Socrates" by Plato, 399 BC.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Wordsworth Editions

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

Nuala O'Faolain (1998). “Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman”

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

Jack London (1988). “The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916. Volume three”, p.193, Stanford University Press

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

"The Leopard" translated by Archibald Colquhoun, London: Fontana, (p. 128), 1963.

Life without commitment is not worth living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in search of man: a philosophy of Judaism”

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks