Meaning Quotes
At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.
Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.
It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
Live is meaningful only if you gave it a meaning.
We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.
Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.
Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.
God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.
Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question.
The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.
Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.
The slice of time has become enormous in importance, and its hidden meaning is now perfectly plain, though so complex that it can hardly be written down.
Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation.
I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.
Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.
Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.
How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.
A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.
The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.
Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.
In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.
For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.
Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.
The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
It's to try to spread the Word of God - the true meaning of Christmas. And that is more important than anything else.
They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.
I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive
There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.
Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.
For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.