Quotes About Meaning

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

Safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains.

If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.

Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.

You can only do two things with your life: give it away or throw it away.

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.

It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked to realize that your life seems empty.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen