Meaning Quotes

The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

We never ask the meaning of life when we are in love.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human.

For me 'Thank You'. This word has a very deep meaning.

You don't need the fame to be vital.

The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

When I feel the heat, I see the light.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered. You. Own. Me.

Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not “sobriety” and meetings.

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice.

Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life.

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.