Quotes About Meaning

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.

If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

Every person has God-given gifts; when you're using those gifts in your life then you're fulfilling your purpose, and that is beautiful.

The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.

The great question of all choosers and adventurers is 'Was it worth while?' - and whatever else you may expect of life, don't expect an answer to that.

How much longer will I live? (Urian) You're immortal, barring death. (Acheron) That doesn't make sense. (Urian) Most of life doesn't. (Acheron)

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

I do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was going to change that title to "A."

While we do not need art to live, I couldn't imagine a life without it.

Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

Life is given to each human being For a very special purpose. This secret each human being Must discover for himself.

When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its own answer to that question.