Quotes About Meaning

If I killed myself now would I make the papers would anyone care I already know the answer to that besides it's irrelevant

In the space of two mere weeks, I have come to know the meaning of life. I won't share it with you, because we all have to find our own meaning. Camus was right, though. Sometimes, I feel just like Meursault.

There's this space in our lives that we attempt to fill with more space and the nothingness grows larger while our lives get smaller, a fact we can't seem to accept very well. So, we take walks and we work and we go to movies and basketball games and church and we Exist in our nothing lives and when we die a speech is made and we are forgotten once again, only more permanently this time.

Religion by its very principle is not always logical; in essence, faith is believing in something you cannot understand with rational thought.

His response really put the experience in perspective: "You have good days and bad days," he said. "But you don't know which is which until someday way down the line because you don't know what you will make of that experience.

no matter how bad a situation may seem, we can learn from it and assign a new meaning to it that moves us closer to our goals.

All I know is that I do not believe in anything anymore and that I must find something to believe in or I will cease to be.

I thought it was just a picture of madness. But that wasn't. It was a message, it has to be, those words are too specific.

Philosophy should address every aspect of our lives — the sacred, the profane, and even the mundane.

How would you be able to detect a fart over your natural odor, Sanza?" "For shame," said Galdo. "There's no Sanzas here, remember? I'm an Asino." "Oh yes," said Locke with a yawn. "Yes, you certainly are.

feeling like you wanted desperately to die was fine evidence that you had yet to do so.

Oh." The boy winced. "Oh!" "Oh-ho-ho!" Chains reached out and slapped the boy on the shoulder. "Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?

What an interesting choice of words. "Not real, and never were." Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our profession? Why are you always so averse to fiction, when we've made it our meal-ticket?' 'I

we should not need a magic wand or a decoder ring to interpret Scripture),

The word "BAE" which is popular in North American society is actually the Danish word for poop.

By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.

Q: What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? A: Don't know, don't care.

the idea of being a "published" author is an antiquated and virtually meaningless one.

He spoke again, slowly this time, and though his words sounded the same as before and meant nothing to me, they now seemed sweet. They were the sound of a human voice. There is no sound like this in all the world.

Every NPC needs a role. A job. A reason for living.

The dead don't care what you say, but maybe the words you speak at a graveside aren't for the dead at all. Maybe those words are for the living.

Our symbols aren't supposed to matter, but that's wishful thinking—symbols always matter.

I never think of the life I'll miss after I'm dead, or all that I missed before I was born. It's the time I'm as good as dead during this, my one and only life, that makes me tear at my hair. It seems to me that if I carefully gathered all of the time I was entirely alive I would have amassed perhaps two years of life so far...

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?