Quotes About Meaning

Death is what makes life an event.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and gesture of soul.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you'll learn just what life's all about.

My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.

Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?

The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

There must be a priority of values in all our lives.

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

No more will, no more soul, no more life!

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!