Life's Worth Quotes

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

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

The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

If your life's worth living, it's worth recording.

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

Your life is worth much more than gold.

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.

The Bible tells me that every life is holy; the Bible tells me that every life is loved; the Bible tells me that every life is called to be all that it can be.

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.

I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.