Quotes About Meaning

You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

Clarify your purpose. What is the why behind everything you do? When we know this in life or design it is very empowering and the path is clear.

"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.

I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.

I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

I think of spirit as that which evokes us - the lure of becoming that keeps calling. And I think of soul as that which gets us through the cartography of everyday life.

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

I believe in God. I always have. There's a reason that everything happens in life.