A Quote by Edward Abbey

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

Edward Abbey

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Life Living Tragedy Without Worth Worth Living Would

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Edward Abbey
American - Author
January 29, 1927 - March 14, 1989

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

Laurie Colwin

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.

Charles Colson

For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

Robert Musil

...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.

Chris Colfer

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

Stephen Fry

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

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

Francesca Lia Block

A life without criticism is not worth living.

Robert Kennedy

Life without risks is not worth living.

Charles Lindbergh

Life without commitment is not worth living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.

Socrates

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

My hope and my intention was that people would experience the tragedy of what Chernobyl was in every regard: a scientific tragedy, a political tragedy, an emotional and personal tragedy, all of that.

Craig Mazin

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

Edward Abbey

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

Charles Lindbergh

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates