Quotes About Meaning

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Art is the proper task of life.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

I love life because what more is there.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you.

The purpose of your existence is yours alone to discover.

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove

You cannot discover the purpose of life by asking someone else - the only way you'll ever get the right answer is by asking yourself

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself