Quotes About Meaning

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment.

The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.

A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?

You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship. That's it.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name; it's kind of random.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

Logical thinking will not be enough to get answers to the questions that matter most in life. We need revelation from God.

It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.