1,047 Quotes About Meaning-of-life

Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Poetry doesn’t pay. But I need it. And so do you.

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.

This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern.

Everything is meaningless

What is the meaning of life?Life has the meaning that you give it.

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.

There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.