Quotes About Meaning

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.

Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.

The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.

All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

Why does life need evidence of life?

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.

I don't need millions of dollars. I need to know that what I'm doing with my life is expressing who I am, and maybe making people happy. This is all we get.

If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.