Quotes on Meaning

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”

“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”

“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”

“Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”

“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.”

“I had someone once who made every day mean something.And now…. I am lost….And nothing means anything anymore.”

“I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.”

“Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times.”

“When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

“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.”

“Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.”

“The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.”

“After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.”

“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.”

“Nature just does what it does, and sometimes its ruinous, but it doesn’t mean for it to be. It doesn’t “mean” anything at all. Meaning is our job.”

“Crap.It's all crap.Living is crap.Life has no meaning.None. Nowhere to be found.Crap.Why doesn't anybody realize this?”

“Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.”

“I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.”

“Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they’re water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.”

“Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.”

“George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.”

“SometimesI can't figure out what to wearAnd sometimes,I have universe in my head..”

“The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?”

“Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.”

“To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.”

“Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...”

“He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.”

“Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it.”

“I love being aroused.I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being naked, and my flesh being born again. It’s like I’m being made new.”

“I live for sex. I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being. I can see no better reason for being alive.”

“Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.”

“Don't sign your namebetween worlds,surmountthe manifold of meanings,trust the tearstain,learn to live.”

Just because we haven't yet discovered the meaning of life doesn't mean we won't. Or that it doesn't exist.

The truth does not belong to us, but it is in the pursuit of truth that we find meaning.

In the end, it is not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

When we tell our stories, we give our lives meaning.

Words are not just tools for communication; they are vessels of meaning.

Art is a way to explore the ineffable and make sense of the unexplainable.

The challenge of life is to find meaning in the chaos.

When I was small I thought words could only mean what they said, now I know they mean what we think they say.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

The decline of the virtues in modern society leads to a loss of meaning.

The desire for meaning is a key part of what it means to be human.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.

A statement is meaningful if and only if it can be empirically verified.

In the end, it is not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years.

Connection is what makes life rich and meaningful.

The true meaning of life lies in its depth, not in its length.

Life is a collection of moments; make them count.