Meaning-of-life Quotes

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life...

Tolstoi has given the simplest answer, with the words: ‘Science is meaningless because it gives no a...

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came her...

The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. ...

You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of pow...

You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of pow...

Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth...

... Without memory how will you ever find your way back to where you came from?

You must live your story.

Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill...

I thought of the fate of Descartes’ famous formulation: man as ‘master and proprietor of nature.’ Ha...

She wants to have her notebooks so that the flimsy framework of events, as she has constructed them ...

You certainly remember this scene from dozens of films: a boy and a girl are running hand in hand in...

There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life ...

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth ...

-i was "far and away"-riding my motorcycle along an american back road, skiing through the snowy Que...

In tracking what people have to say about schooling, I notice that most of the conversation is about...

Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps...

I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between m...

Because, as I would always tell myself so many years later, lying here in my bed: You can't start ou...

Good begets good; evil begets evil; and even if the good you give is met by evil, you have no choice...

The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous,...

Yes, but perhaps he did have something to do with it.” (In such arguments Stenham often found himsel...

Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways canno...

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the univers...

There seemed no answer. He wasn't resigned to anything, he hadn't accepted or adjusted to the life h...

At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life...

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting i...

To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of compariso...

And if ever I'm reduced to looking for a meaning to my life, you never can tell, it's in that old me...

Whatever talent a person has should be dedicated to the rest of humanity - indeed to all living bein...

- What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on...

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we de...

No wonder modern humanity, even as it loudly proclaims its freedom and power to choose, is really an...

As a society of unbelief, Western culture is devoid of a sense of journey, of adventure, because it ...

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Homeward bound I suddenly noticed before me my own shadow as I had seen the shadow of the other war ...

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

God makes it all come right in the end, that's what Johnnie told Dock Barker just before we parted c...

I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Nev...

Finally, I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am.

Why endure verticality when you can be horizontal?

We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' t...

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a...

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. T...

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great d...

The gruff murmur, irregularly broken by the taking out of pipes and the putting in of pipes which ha...

It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or t...

If death ends all, if I have neither to hope for good to come nor to fear evil, I must ask myself wh...

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

If there is any intelligence guiding this universe, philosophy wishes to know and understand it and ...

I sat down in the middle of the garden, where snakes could scarcely approach unseen, and leaned my b...

All life is a jest, Imhotep - and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Ea...

I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I wa...

Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done...

Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Hei...

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never liv...

In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing ...

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you bl...

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how m...

World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same.

Life has only one equation. The equation of giving.

A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an ...

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman o...

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. ...

Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are no...

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is s...

If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-...

Aunt Esther: You think you supposed to know everything. Life is a mystery. Don't you know life is a ...

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the myst...

For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its...

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to not...

...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notic...

He looked down at the books. There was a long silence. Then he raised his eyes and directed his gaze...

I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties an...

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to w...

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time e...

When you win, the rules change, and you find you’ve lost

There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love.

Many atheists might proudly proclaim that our lives have no ultimate meaning, yet the business of fi...

The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to d...

The history of every major galactic civilisation tends to pass through three distinct and recognisab...

The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' wo...

In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was...

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

Or help one fainting RobinUnto his Nest againI shall not live in vain.

Actually, what does man live for?” “To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die ju...

Actually, what does man live for?”“To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die jus...

Because of the times we live in, all of us, young and old, do not spend enough time and effort think...

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of u...

People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is ...