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Quotes About Meaning

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
~ Novalis
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
~ Toni Morrison
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
~ Vaclav Havel
If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
~ Paula Cole
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
~ Unknown
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
~ Unknown
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
~ Unknown
The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.
~ Julie Benz
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
~ Marc Chagall
I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.
~ Charisma Carpenter
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
~ Joseph Campbell
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
~ Paul Kurtz
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
~ Joseph Campbell
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.
~ Thomas Merton
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
~ Emil Brunner
Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
~ Albert Camus
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
~ Aristotle
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
~ Michael Jackson
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Did you know that when people appear in your dreams, it's because that person wants to see you?
~ Time Magazine
If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says : "I'm cheap!
~ Delta Burke
Look at the real reality beneath the sham realities of things and gadgets," Leonard always tells me. "Look through the eye in your heart. That's the meaning of Indian religion.
~ Unknown
Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
~ Mary Daly