Quotes About Meaning

I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

Life can be both hell and bliss or it can be nothing at all.

Enjoyment of life generally includes being socially connected, having fun, and feeling a sense of purpose.

I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn't meaningful or important unless you're on purpose about something way bigger than you are.

It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life.

The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?

We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.

Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Literature has become my life.

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is.

Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

You can use your life in a very useful and intelligent way. You can very well transform that negative energy into a positive energy that empowers you and makes life meaningful.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

Life is too short to waste on things that don't matter.