Quotes About Meaning

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Life should be an aim unto itself, a purpose unto itself.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

The usefulness of living lies not in duration but in what you make of it. Some have lived long and lived little. See to it while you are still here. Whether you have lived enough depends not on a count of years but on your will.

If I can, I will prevent my death from saying anything not first said by my life.

The greatest and glorious masterpiece of a man is how to live with a purpose.

To hear men talk of metonomies, metaphors, and allegories, and other grammar words, would not one think they signified some rare and exotic form of speaking? And yet they are phrases that come near to the babble of my chambermaid. And

L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.

Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said. -from That intention is judge of our actions

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.

What can we do now? How many words are left with Ds in it? Not many, I bet. Probably al the best ones have already been ruined.' .. .. 'And if I ever find my dad, what will he be? Just a sound. A sound without any meaning.' p 208

Like all creatures in the universe, they were only waiting for the elusive light that would grant them purpose.

Granted, he once opined in a Cambridge undergraduate magazine that 'a single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day

There is no God.

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.

Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester's cap and bells.

People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying you will make a man that will live longer than he.

The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full-stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.