Quotes About Meaning

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.

What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my charms as a man.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?