Quotes About Meaning

Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again.

Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

He who has a why can deal with any what or how.

If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool;And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.

The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

There's more to life than movies.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.

What we lack is intensity of life.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.