Quotes About Meaning

Tell it anyway. Little words can mean death or life sometimes.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

He who first invented the notion of defending Christianity is de facto Judas No. 2; he also betrays with a kiss, only his treachery is that of stupidity.

This is the profound secret of innocence, that at the same time it is dread.

All lives end, but not all conclude.

Det gäller att finna en sanning, som är sanning för mig, att finna en idé för vilken jag vill leva och dö.

Upravo loša savest može u?initi život zanimljivim.

How empty life is and without meaning. - We bury a man, we follow him to the grave, we throw three spades of earth on him, we ride out in a coach, we ride home in a coach, we take comfort in the thought that a long life awaits us. But how long is threescore years and ten? Why not finish it at once?

Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.

When you love you give meaning to this world.

I have projects in life that I'm engaged in, I have things that stimulate me in my life, that make me happy. But more interesting for me is: I'm still trying to figure it out.

I can live my legacy or just have led a busy life.

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

You cannot create a life of fulfillment, joy, and meaning while you are barricading yourself from others and from the opportunities Life offers you.

He who sees his soul is more than his life does not confuse the two.

Every path serves a purpose.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning.

People try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.