Quotes About Meaning

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

There is not love of life without despair about life.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem...

Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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

God may be subtle, but He isn't mean.

Something deeper had to be hidden behind things.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.