Quotes About Meaning

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.

For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.

If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life.

I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

No one is in your life by mistake.

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

I discovered what is and isn't important to me. I decided I really wanted to enjoy life with someone fun, who can make the best out of any situation - whatever it is we're doing.

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally