1,047 Quotes About Meaning-of-life

ခ်စ္ျခင္းေမတၱာဆိုသည္မွာ အက်ိဳးနပ္သည္ျဖစ္ေစ မနပ္သည္ျဖစ္ေစ၊ လူ႕ဘဝကိုေတာ့ အဓိပၸာယ္ရွိေစသည္။

Science may explain how humans came into being, but it has no answer to the slippery question of how humans should live. Only literature makes it possible to pose such questions in the first place. And if there is no answer, only literature can point to the impossibility of ever finding one.

¿Quién soy? ¿Para qué vine al mundo? ¿Por qué no puedo encontrarle gusto a la vida?Los filósofos no son los únicos que se hacen estas preguntas: también los vividores profesionales. La diferencia es que nosotros no buscamos respuestas: sólo nutrimos con ella nuestra indolencia, y a veces, bajo el efecto del alcohol o las drogas, llegamos a sentir que la pereza contemplativa es un sello de distinción.

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are generally disappointed when they figure it out.

The purpose of life is to seek harmony.

Breathing seemed harder in the cemetery, and selfish, somehow...

The alternative to pain may be worse. When you live with an open heart, you will inevitably get hurt. The alternative of living a life closed off from experience, however, is barren. Ironically, it also still involves suffering. In fearing pain, we already feel the pain from our fear.

Without your stories, without your heroes and their awesome powers, how could you explain this, this here, this incomprehensible real that ever refuses to embrace any rule, any cliché besides the intransigent, pathetic truth that we all end, that no one comes back.

As far as we can tell, from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose. Our actions are not part of some divine cosmic plan, and if planet Earth were to blow up tomorrow morning, the universe would probably keep going about business as usual.