Quotes About Meaning

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.

When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.

My life is a contribution.

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

It's not how long you live, but how you live that's important. Therefore, don't make your life just livable, make it memorable.

Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.