Quotes About Meaning

To fully enjoy life, to derive its greatest meaning and beauty, one needs to enter into it with not only the look of involvement and happiness, but the spirit of involvement as well.

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

Life takes on the meaning that you give it.

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

The biggest things in life are not materials.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

The Greek word for sinning means to 'miss the point;' The point is eternal life which is here and now.

Ah, why should life all labor be?

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

You don't need the fame to be vital.

A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.

If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

The aim of living is life itself.

You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.

I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.

Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?

There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.