Life force

Life force may refer to:

• Vitality, ability to live or exist
• Vitalism, the belief in the existence of vital energy
  • Energy (esotericism), a concept in spirituality and alternative medicine
    • Prana, the Sanskrit word for "life force" or "vital principle"
    • Qi, an active principle forming part of any living thing (translated as "natural energy", "life force", or "energy flow")
    • Élan vital, a philosophical term coined by Henri Bergson in 1907 – roughly translated as "vital impetus" or "vital force"
• Vijñāna (translated as "consciousness," "life force", "mind" or "discernment")

Art and entertainment

• Life Force, a 1967 album by American saxophonist Eric Kloss
• Life Force, a sculpture at Columbia University, New York City
• Life Force, an alternate version of the video game Salamander
• Life Force, a 2000 British science fiction television series
• Lifeforce (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Lifeforce, a 1985 science fiction-horror film
• A Life Force, by Will Eisner
• Lifeforce Records, a record label
• Life Force, a novel by Fay Weldon in 1992
• Life Force, a fictional group of traveling doctors in Africa, within the Hong Kong television series The Last Breakthrough