Quotes About Meaning

There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

All men know their children mean more than life.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.

We lost a young man's life and it begins to represent so many things.

It's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].

Trapnest means "The Trapped Den" Once we enter it, we can't get out by our own means I thought that that name could only come from a man who love having power over other.

"To think the way you do," he said smiling, "you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope." "On both, perhaps."

Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.