Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless."
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Worth Living
54 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Democritus
Philosopher
"Life unexamined, is not worth living."
Guy de Maupassant
Novelist
"It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"A life worth living is a life worth recording."
Joseph Heller
Novelist
"...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for."
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"The life which is not examined is not worth living."
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"Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?"
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"The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living"
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"If dance wasn't in my life, it wouldn't be worth living."
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"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
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"If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today."
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"Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man."
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"I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living."
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"It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having."
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"A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining."
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"Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living."
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"Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others."
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"A life without tragedy would not be worth living."
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"One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living."
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"If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living."
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"If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living"
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"A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living."
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"You don't get a life until you make one worth living."
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"If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to."
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"Everybody knows life isn't worth living."
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