Quotes About Meaning

The outcome of a still veracitless life. Am I livin' it right?

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.

But she'd managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.

Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.

When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.

There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

Happiness is not in the having or being- it is in the doing.

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.

Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life.

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

Words matter, words have import.