1,900 Quotes About Meaning

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

Religion seeks to lift us from everyday matter towards spirit, while magic seeks rather to bring spirit down into everyday matter. While religion often reflects a 'quest for meaning', magic is more about 'sowing seeds of meaning'.

An enviable lunatic! One for whom a pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes.

That life may be in fact meaningless in no way detracts from its pleasures or beauty.

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

...well, I guess it is natural when one is dying to sort of sum up what has mattered, what has been beautiful.

Like much else nowadays I leave it feeling stupid, like a man who lost his way long ago but presses on along a road that may lead nowhere.

The wide-eyed professor lectured, on the verge of tears, and when class ended, the students closed their notebooks shut and asked of her plans for the weekend, which was answered politely, but with a tinge of sadness, for the professor feared her personhood, which had in her lesson plan existed truly only minutes ago, was already being reduced to the small, meaningless matters of tomorrow.

The meaning of life is to be too busy living to worry whether it has a meaning or not.