Quotes About Meaning

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?

What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

Words of the world are the life of the world.

There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.

Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we're all headed to the same hole at the end of the day.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

I don't know why I've spent over half of My life talking about dying

That's what my life is, writing songs.

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.

I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let me tell you what your play means," and the life gets sucked out of a play.

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

Now I've got that [life is a journey not a destination] tattooed on my arm because it just reminds me of that time, and I think it's just an amazing quote.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.

By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?