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Quotes About Meaning

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.
~ Edvard Munch
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
~ Alfred de Vigny
I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.
~ Doyle Brunson
Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
~ Julian Casablancas
Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.
~ James Hillman
We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along.
~ Ronald Rolheiser
The greatest tragedy in life is not death. The greatest tragedy is to be alive and not know why
~ Simon T. Bailey
The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities,reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
~ Nancy Thayer
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
~ Jeanne Moreau
Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
~ Ann Voskamp
Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships
~ Gary Chapman
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.
~ Graca Machel
The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
~ James Agee
What are we doing here, that is the question.
~ Samuel Beckett
Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
~ Sydney J. Harris
We are not born to survive. Only to live.
~ W. S. Merwin
In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
~ William Allen White
Your life has little purpose if you are separate from your own knowledge within.
~ John de Ruiter
Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.
~ Louise Rosenblatt
How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you - for that is the meaning of your life.
~ Martin Buber
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.
~ B. Alan Wallace
Writing is making sense of life.
~ Nadine Gordimer