Quotes About Meaning

We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

Life is a message scribbled in the dark.

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

We're on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what's more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

An unhappy life is a life not lived.

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

Make something beautiful of your life.

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters.

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

If you do it properly, life is art, really.