Quotes About Meaning

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

Death is the price we pay for life, so make it worth it.

Death is a gift. Without it we wouldn't value life.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.

'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

To me, that's the wealth of my life: my friends and family and the experience I get to share with them.