Quotes About Meaning

and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.

If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.

Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.

I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.

Everyone feels that void. Everyone who has the balls to look inside themselves, anyway. It's what life's all about.. A search.

There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'

Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Does life have any meaningful purpose?

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

If your life's worth living, it's worth recording.

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.