Quotes About Meaning

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about.

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of Moses are inspired. Call it divine. I don't know. But I would certainly call it inspired.

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

The point of your life is to point to Him...it is His movie, His world, His gift.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words akind of blood must circulate forever.

If you haven't had your life what have you had?

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

Music isn't about music, it's about life.

Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to HAPPEN to a person.

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

Passion is the relentless pursuit of those life-enhancing activities or experiences that give our souls meaning.

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.