Quotes About Meaning

The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.

A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means - the bottom line - then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos.

I'm very grateful for every thing I have. You know when you start losing that then you start losing what life's all about.

When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.