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Quotes About Meaning

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.
~ Henry Rollins
My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius
~ Homer
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.
~ James Stephens
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
~ Jean Rostand
I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted.
~ Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.
~ John Astin
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
~ John Berryman
If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.
~ Yukio Mishima
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.
~ Clifford D. Simak
The examined life is the only life worth living.
~ Socrates
Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds.
~ Robert J. Shiller
You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?
~ Robert Plant
Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.
~ Robert Towne
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.
~ Stephanie S. Tolan
Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.
~ Steve Tesich
The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.
~ Thomas Merton
The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
~ Timothy Keller
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.
~ Tom Baker
Trying to say something is all you got in life.
~ Ty Segall
You don't want to just exist, you want to get the most out of life.
~ Uriah Hall
How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?
~ Vachel Lindsay
In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.
~ Wassily Kandinsky