Life is the characteristic that distinguishes organisms from inorganic substances and dead objects.

Life or The Life may also refer to:

Human life

  • Human life (disambiguation)
  • Human condition, the characteristics, events, and situations of human existence
  • Biography, a written, filmed, etc. description of a person's life
  • Autobiography, an account of one's own life
  • Everyday life, what a person does and feels on an everyday basis
  • Personal life, an individual's life
  • Life imprisonment, a sentence of imprisonment

Arts and media

Films

  • Life (1920 film), a lost 1920 American silent drama film
  • Life (1928 film), a British silent drama film
  • Life (1984 film), a Chinese film
  • Life (1996 film), an Australian drama film
  • Life (1999 film), an American comedy film
  • The Life (2004 film), a Canadian made-for-TV drama film
  • Whore (2004 film), a Spanish drama film also called The Life
  • Life!, a 2005 Dutch film
  • The Life (2012 film), a Ugandan film
  • Life (2015 film), an American biopic
  • Life (2017 film), an American science fiction horror film

Gaming

  • Life (gaming), a play-turn for a player-character
  • The Game of Life, a board game
  • Conway's Game of Life, a cellular automaton
  • Life, development title for the 1983 Atari game Lifespan
  • Life (gamer), alias of Korean former professional StarCraft II player Lee Seung-Hyun, convicted and banned from competition for match fixing

Music

Albums

  • Life (Sly and the Family Stone album), 1968
  • Life (Exuma album), 1973
  • Life (Thin Lizzy album), 1983
  • Life (Is So Strange), a 1983 album by War
  • Life (Art Davis album), 1986
  • Life (Neil Young & Crazy Horse album), 1987
  • Life (Inspiral Carpets album), 1990
  • Life (The Cardigans album), 1995
  • Life (Simply Red album), 1995
  • Life (Talisman album), 1995
  • Life (soundtrack), the 1999 soundtrack to the 1999 film
  • Life (Black Biscuits album), a 1999 album featuring Vivian Hsu
  • Life, a 1999 album by Nelson
  • Life (Dope album), 2001
  • Life (ZOEgirl album), 2001
  • The Life (album), a 2001 album by Ginuwine
  • Life, a 2002 album by Z-Ro
  • Life (Frukwan album), 2003
  • Life (Yo Gotti album), 2003
  • Life (Andy Hunter album), 2005
  • Life (Ricky Martin album), 2005
  • Life (KRS-One album), 2006
  • Life (Marcia Hines album), 2007
  • Life (David "Fathead" Newman album), 2007
  • Life (Angela Aki album), 2010
  • Life (Cueshé album), 2010
  • Life (Sage Francis album), 2010
  • L.i.f.e, a 2012 album by Josh Osho
  • Life (EP), a 2013 release by Heo Young-saeng
  • L.I.F.E, a 2013 album by Burna Boy
  • Life (Sigma album), 2015
  • Life (Adagio album), 2017
  • Life, a 2018 album by Boy George & Culture Club
  • Life (Conrad Sewell album), 2019

Songs

  • "Life" (Ana Johnsson song), 2004
  • "Life" (Ayahi Takagaki song), 2009
  • "Life" (Des'ree song), 1998
  • "Life" (E-Type song), 2001
  • "Life" (Elvis Presley song), 1971
  • "The Life" (Fifth Harmony song), 2016
  • "Life" (Gen Hoshino song), 2023
  • "Life" (Haddaway song), 1993
  • "Life" (K-Ci & JoJo song), 1999
  • "Life" (Mika Nakashima song), 2007
  • "Life Number 9" (also written "Life #9"), 2004
  • "Life" (Our Lady Peace song), 2000
  • "Life" (Ricky Nelson song), 1971
  • "The Life" (Styles P song), 2002
  • "Life" (Toše Proeski song), 2004
  • "Life" (Yui song), 2005
  • "Life (Diamonds in the Dark)", 2013 John Dahlbäck song
  • "Life (Me no Mae no Mukō e)", 2010 Kanjani8 song
  • "The Life", by Alicia Keys from Songs in A Minor
  • "Life", by ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead from So Divided
  • "Life", by Atheist from Piece of Time
  • "Life", by Audio Adrenaline from Audio Adrenaline
  • "Life", by Ayumi Hamasaki from Mirrorcle World
  • "Life", by Bleeding Through from Love Will Kill All
  • "Life", by Collective Soul from See What You Started by Continuing
  • "Life", by Conrad Sewell from Life
  • "Life", by Devin Townsend from Ocean Machine: Biomech
  • "Life", by E-Type featuring Na Na from Euro IV Ever
  • "The Life", by Estelle from All of Me
  • "Life", by Flipper from Album – Generic Flipper
  • "The Life", by Gary Clark Jr. from Blak and Blu
  • "The Life", by Hinder from All American Nightmare
  • "The Life", by Mystic from Cuts for Luck and Scars for Freedom
  • "LIFE", a single by Neuro-sama
  • "Life", by Royce da 5'9" featuring Amerie on Royce da 5'9" from Rock City
  • "Life", by Sonata Arctica from The Ninth Hour
  • "Life?", by Napalm Death from Scum
  • "L.I.F.E.", by Lil Mama from VYP (Voice of the Young People)

Other uses in music

  • Life (rapper), British hip hop musician
  • Life Records, a Malaysian record label
  • Life Records, an imprint of Bellmark Records
  • The Life (musical), a 1990 musical
  • Life (Tchaikovsky's unfinished symphony)

Fiction

  • Life (play), an 1800 comedy play by Frederick Reynolds
  • A Life, the English title of the 1892 novel Una Vita by Italo Svevo
  • A Life (play), a 1979 play by Hugh Leonard
  • A Life, a 1986 collection of poetry by Iain Crichton Smith
  • Life (manga), a 2002 shōjo manga series
  • Life, a 2004 novel by Gwyneth Jones
  • The Life (novel), a 2011 novel by Malcolm Knox
  • The Life, a 2012 novel by Martina Cole
  • A Life, a 2016 play by Adam Bock

Non-fiction books

  • Life (Sadava book), a 1983 biological science textbook, in its 11th edition as of 2016
  • A Life, the 1988 autobiography of Elia Kazan
  • Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, a 1997 natural history by Richard Fortey
  • A Life, a 2001 memoir of Gabriel Josipovici's mother
  • Life (Richards book), a 2010 memoir by The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards

Non-fiction periodicals

  • Life (magazine), an American magazine from 1883 to 1972 and from 1978 to 2000
  • Life (newspapers), local papers from Lerner Newspapers
  • Life (journal), a scientific journal published by MDPI
  • IUBMB Life, a scientific journal published by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Radio

  • The Life, an Australian radio programme hosted by the comedy duo Roy and HG
  • Life 103.1, the slogan for WLHC, an American radio station licensed to Robbins, North Carolina, United States
  • Life FM (disambiguation), one of several radio stations
  • Life Radio, a Philippine radio network

Television

  • Life (American TV series), a 2007–2009 American police drama aired on NBC
  • Life (2009 TV series), a British nature documentary series aired on the BBC
  • Life (2020 TV series), a British drama series aired on the BBC
  • Life (Japanese TV series), a 2007 Japanese television series, based on the manga series of the same name
  • Life (South Korean TV series), a 2018 South Korean television series
  • "Life" (Stargate: Universe), an episode of Stargate: Universe
  • Life TV (Philippines), a Philippine television channel
  • The Life (advertisement), a 2009 television and cinema advertisement for the Halo 3: ODST video game
  • The Life Collection, David Attenborough's series of BBC natural history programmes from 1979 to 2005
  • GMA Life TV, an international Filipino television station
  • 9Life, an Australian television channel sometimes called Life
  • Life Network, rebranded as Slice in 2007, a former Canadian television specialty network
  • Life TV Media, a British broadcasting company
  • TV3 Life, a Latvian television channel

Other arts

  • Life (sculpture), a 1968 sculpture in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Businesses and organizations

  • Life (news agency, Russia), Russian news website
  • Life Racing Engines, a former racing team
  • Life Technologies (Thermo Fisher Scientific), a corporation acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2014
  • Life University, a college in Marietta, Georgia, United States
  • lifecell, a Ukraine mobile network operator, formerly called life:)
  • Lambda Phi Epsilon, a North American Asian-interest fraternity nicknamed Life
  • The LIFE Programme (French : L’Instrument Financier pour l’Environnement), the European Union's funding instrument for the environment and climate action.
  • Life Scout (Boy Scouts of America), the second-highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America

Technology

  • Laser Inertial Fusion Energy, a laser inertial fusion power plant design
  • Lunar Infrastructure for Exploration, a space telescope project
  • Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment, Shuttle-LIFE and Phobos-LIFE
  • Large Interferometer For Exoplanets

Other uses

  • Life (cereal), a cereal distributed by the Quaker Oats Company
  • Life, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in the United States
  • Living Is For Everyone, a suicide prevention initiative of the Australian government's National Suicide Prevention Strategy
  • LIFE Act, a 2000 United States immigration law
  • LYF (pronounced life), or Reliance LYF, a 4G smartphone brand owned by Reliance Industries
  • Life, a character who is Death’s wife in the animated series Adventure Time episode "The Gift That Reaps Giving" and "Together Again"

See also

  • Life on Earth (disambiguation)
  • Life skills, human abilities to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of life
  • Life, the universe and everything (disambiguation)
  • My Life (disambiguation)
  • Meaning of life
  • Phenomenological life, life considered from a philosophical and rigorously phenomenological point of view
  • Creature (disambiguation)
  • Organism, a living entity
  • Real life, a phrase used to distinguish between actual and fictional or idealized worlds
  • List of life forms
  • 一生 (disambiguation)