Meaning-of-life Quotes

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 ...

The meaning of life is that it ends

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Human nature has nevertheless been changed by the ever new appearance of these teachers of the purpo...

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opp...

You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fin...

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emoti...

The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.

There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with l...

I don't think it's a question of liking or disliking it," Tengo said..."It was the one thing he was ...

I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have so...

He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the...

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am...

As I said, to put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive...

The work of each individual contributes to a totality, and so becomes an undying part of the totalit...

There are days when everything I see seems to me charged with meaning: messages it would be difficul...

All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart ...

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figur...

I wasn't getting better. I was getting worse.I did not go to the doctor because I didn't want pills....

A meaningless life for a human being has none of the dignity of animal unselfconsciousness; we canno...

I am just the biologist; I don’t require any of this to have a deeper meaning. I am aware that all o...

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no oth...

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds ...

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in ...

At times, he admitted, he had been very happy in the apple business. He knew what Larch would have t...

In the purifying sweep of atheism human beings lost all special value. The numb misery of the horse ...

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the ...

You really can't follow a guru. You can't ask somebody to give The Reason, but you can find one for ...

But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the a...

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for th...

We had a project on this trip back to the solar system, and that project was a labor of love. It abs...

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind...

If the universe doesn't care about us and if we're an accident in a remote corner of the universe, i...

It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In societ...

It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a l...

Involuntarily it appeared to me that there, somewhere, was someone who amused himself by watching ho...

I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had ...

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some ...

In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living mani...

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude wi...

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