Meaning-of-life Quotes

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...

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.