Quotes About Meaning

Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what life is about.

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.

In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.

The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

Life is filled with meaning as soon as Jesus Christ enters into it.

Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

Our life must answer for our faith.

Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one