1,900 Quotes About Meaning

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning, and that is what I am experiencing just now.

All pauses in space,a violent compression of meaningin an instant within the meaningless.

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

More lives are being lost because some have lost their ability to understand the meaning of life.

and neither of them ever said what they meant and i guess nobody ever does

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

Impending death scares us but also re-energizes us for the urgency of doing something with our lives.

No matter how much energy you’ve expanded to fetter your true color, it leaks out eventually—usually during unpleasant moments