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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
• Life (2020 TV series) a British drama television series by the BBC

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", 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

Print media

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

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

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)
• All pages with titles containing life
• All pages with titles beginning with life

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