Quotes About Meaning

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

In the end, during our brief moment in the sun, we are tasked with the noble charge of finding our own meaning.

As our trek across time will make clear, life is likely transient, and all understanding that arose with its emergence will almost certainly dissolve with its conclusion. Nothing is permanent. Nothing is absolute. And so, in the search for value and purpose, the only insights of relevance, the only answers of significance, are those of our own making. In the end, during our brief moment in the sun, we are tasked with the noble charge of finding our own meaning.

We are guided by laws that operate without concern for destination, and yet we constantly ask ourselves where we are headed. We are shaped by laws that seem not to require an underlying rationale, and yet we persistently seek meaning and purpose.

The examined life examines death.

I used to imagine that by studying the universe, by peeling it apart figuratively and literally, we would answer enough of the how questions to catch a glimpse of the answers to the whys.

The extreme disparity between the outsider's and insider's perspectives arises because they have vastly different conceptions of time. Although the point is far from obvious, we'll now see what appears as endless time to an outsider appears as endless space, at each moment of time, to an insider.

La cosmología tiene la capacidad de llamar nuestra atención a un nivel profundo y visceral, porque comprender cómo comenzó todo es, al menos para algunos, el punto en el que podemos encontrarnos más cerca de comprender por qué empezó.

The implications of these features of quantum mechanics for our picture of reality are a subject of ongoing research. Many scientists, myself included, view them as part of a radical quantum updating of the meaning and properties of space.

Many find it fatuous and downright repugnant to claim that the wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.

Anyone who searches for the meaning of life is on a fool's journey. Human life has no redeeming purpose or value. —the cymek GENERAL AGAMEMNON, A Time for Titans

La pregunta definitiva: ¿por qué existe la vida? La respuesta: por el puro placer de vivir.

Why look for meaning where there is none? Would you follow a path you know leads nowhere? —Query of the Mentat School

The symbolism of a belief can survive far longer than the belief itself.

To keep from dying is not the same as "to live." —Bene Gesserit Saying

All life is a series of seemingly insignificant tasks and decisions, culminating in the definition of an individual and her purpose in life.

When did life start being something you had to work at and not something that just is?

Well, I've always wanted to call my son Barr. Like a tavern? Like a soap ? My father's name is Barr. Oh. And I love it!

Art has no responsibility except to be art.

Because I don't want my final days in this universe to be filled with pity and sorrow. I want to spend this time doing what I like best for the people I care about most." "But… you don't even know me." "Maybe not, but lord do you ever talk in your sleep. It's clear you love my boy very much.

But you have gift! Gift? I was electrocuted and disfigured, and now I think my fucking television is talking to me. That's called schizophrenia.

I thought about Pic and Jesus, and I thought about how it never ends well for us writer types. Nobody gets out alive, of course, but is it too much to ask that just one of us goes in our sleep with the knowledge that what we did actually mattered

You see, when you get to be my age, you start to realize that life isn't defined by years, jobs, or decisions—it's defined by moments.

the singular: NOM. oëo, ACC. oë