Quotes About Meaning

If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit.

A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.

Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.

Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.

Life is too meaningful to die.

Living life, I mean, my two stepsons, my husband, I think every day - today interaction inspires me - as far as music goes - inspires my art.

Life is greater than all art.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.

In this world, there is life and death; he who misses the life shall never die anymore, because he is already a dead!

People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy!

My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled.

Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life.

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

The question 'Who am I?' is not an idle one. How you answer the question will determine how you live the rest of your life. It will determine the quality of your life.

So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.