Life Responsibility Quotes

The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Parenting is perhaps the most important job we have in our lives.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

I never want to possibly take another life in my hands.

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

We all have won the lottery of life. How do we discharge that responsibility?

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.

That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do.

In just living my life, there's a responsibility to be true to myself, to be a responsible human.

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.