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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

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

— Sholom Aleichem

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

— Guy de Maupassant

There's no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears.

— George Takei

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

— Frances Burney

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

— William James

When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.

— Rihanna

When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that you have made the wrong choices in life, and now it's too late to do anything about them.

— Henning Mankell

✗Opposing Perspectives

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

— Tom Robbins

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

— Zane Grey

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

— Richard Le Gallienne