Quotes About Meaning

When you are approaching death, I thought, you won't think about your reinforcements—the likes and retweets—you'll think about your moments of flow.

Human beings only become addicted when they cannot find anything better to live for and when they desperately need to fill the emptiness that threatens to destroy them,

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself

How can I not be? How can you not be? We are after all. –– Not be! What does that mean? It is only a word, a mere sound, which stirs nothing in me.

A useless life is only an early death

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

In the colorful reflection we have what is life.

An unused life is an early death.

Poetry is not simply a fashion of expression: it is the form of expression absolutely required by a certain class of ideas. Poetry, indeed, may be distinguished from Prose by the single circumstance, that it is the utterance of whatever in man cannot be perfectly uttered in any other than a rhythmical form: it is useless to say that the naked meaning is independent of the form: on the contrary, the form contributes essentially to the fullness of the meaning.

Listen to that lovely music, Better than mythology! Your gods, elderly and antique, Give them up, they're now passé. Those old tales have lost all meaning, We aim at a higher goal: From the soul must come the feeling That can move another's soul.

All things transitory But as symbols are sent. Earth's insufficiency Here grows to event. The indescribable Here it is done. The Woman-Soul leads us upward and on!

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.

Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.

...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.

The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it. Also, finding meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?