1,047 Quotes About Meaning-of-life

Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use his reasoning faculty in all matters involving truth, and especially as concerning his religion. He must learn to distinguish between truth and error.

Some of those who have killed themselves would readily kill themselves again if they could.

And this nothing, this everything, cannot give life a meaning, but it nonetheless makes life persevere in what it is: a state of non-suicide.

The elderly gentleman sitting across the table from me didn't run away from home, as Sam calls it, because he has dementia. He left because he's looking for a reason to live. Just like me.

So Man, who here seems principal alone,Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown.Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal,'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Well, once you stop believing in an old gentleman with a beard . . .It’s only the word God, you know — it makes such a conventional noise.” “It’s merely shorthand for where we come from, where we’re going, and what it’s all about.” “And do religious people find out what it’s all about? Do they really get the answer to the riddle?” “They get just a whiff of an answer sometimes.

I look out and I almost get the point.

the more pretty the face is " , "the more dirty past it has

Ascribing meaning to life, if not sincere, is nothing more than a cheap thrill-ride for the soul.