Quotes About Meaning

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

Life and existence have no value in themselves. We mean nothing; not even those who are needed mean anything. The only thing of real value is what we produce.

The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

Refuse to write your life and you have no life.

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.

The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.

In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

It is only as we focus our thoughts on heaven that we will correctly interpret life on earth.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

You must find your treasure in order to make sense of everything you discovered on the path.

The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.

Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

Only those who find life, find treasures.

Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

In my opinion, life is more important than show business.

Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.