1,900 Quotes About Meaning

Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it.

Life is not all about skipping to the best parts.

Purpose is finding significance in something so astronomically insignificant.

Earth keeps turning but it never says why.

You can thank us by doing something serious with it

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

When I told the rainbow what its colors meant, it laughed.

My husband said to me while I was swooning in his arms, 'Why are all the longest dances the draggiest?'I took this to mean that he has not loved me for a very long time. Everything means something, or it does not. I have expressed an opinion. Every effect has a source that is not unfamiliar. It's all so evil.("The Uncanny")

Life is not a matter for simple optimism--for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism--for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.