1,900 Quotes About Meaning

She was in that flagging mood when to go on living seems only to load more unmeaning moments on to your memory.

A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.

Everyone thinks I have a death wish, you know? But I don't want to die - dying is easy. No, I want to live, but getting close to death is the only way to feel alive. And once you do, it makes you realize that everything you were doing before wasn't actually living. It was just making do. Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when the stakes are high.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

If we have nothing to live for, we have to create something to live for.

The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made of those words, the amendments, the failed amendments, the struggles, the debates—the course of events—over more than two centuries. It is not easy, but it is everyone’s.

It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.

The whole future---I thought---will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning.

What are you, life? Perhaps the answer is found in the question, the wonder that is implicit in it. Does the light of life dwindle and turn to darkness as soon as we stop wondering, stop questioning, and take life like every other commonplace thing?