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Quotes About Meaning

The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?
~ Marty Rubin
Death is not a choice, even for the suicide.
~ Marty Rubin
As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.
~ Johnny Rich, The Human Script
More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.
~ Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Are you brave enough to live your DASH: birth year – death year?
~ Unknown
Why do you live?Because I have something worth living for.
~ J.K. Rowling
Death is more meaningful than just being dead.
~ Munia Khan
Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun!
~ Janne Teller, Nothing
Why is such a bad thing to die?
~ Han Kang, The Vegetarian
I have no interest in dying.But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me.
~ Unknown
Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for.
~ Unknown
One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.
~ Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo
In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.
~ Brodi Ashton, Neverfall
Life may be scaryBut it's only temporary.And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.from: Antinatalism A Thought Experiment
~ Quentin S. Crisp
Life may be scaryBut it's only temporary.And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.
~ Quentin S. Crisp
One day I shall leave the world, And if you feel like remembering me-Search me not in my ashes, In my words, you can rummage me!
~ Neelam Saxena Chandra
Ultimately, what I am seeking in the photograph taken of me... is Death: Death is the eidos of that Photograph
~ Ronald Barthes
Either a man goes and hangs himself, and then he hangs sure enough, and he'll have his reasons for it, or else he goes on living and then he has only living to bother himself with. Simple enough.
~ Hermann Hesse
I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.
~ Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever
Life offers many reasons to be alive. Death offers none.
~ Aditya Ajmera
People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.
~ Unknown
After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
~ Harold Kushner