1,900 Quotes About Meaning

What is the meaning of life?" She asked me. "Life has no meaning" I said. "Then why do we live?" She asked me. "To create the meaning" I said.

‘So many’ is not the same as ‘too many.’

When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.

Probably, as in all metaphysical questions, both are true: Life is or has meaning and meaninglessness. I cherish the anxious hope that meaning will preponderate and win the battle.

You were made for God, not vice-versa, and life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not your using him for your own purpose.

But what was a starry sky for a child who wasn’t even capable of imagining that a ceiling might not be above his head?

Happiness can't be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so if an individual successfully architects a meaningful life around themselves.

After a while she said, "If you make a sound it's just a sound, unless it belongs to a language, and then it's a word. It means something. It can't not mean something.

We look, most humans, for a way to be warm and safe; for a haven for our bodies when, once fire was discovered and clothes invented, when once we understood why the squirrels moved seeds around and what to call the plant the jaguar got giggly off of, when once we no longer worried about being eaten by other mammals or each other we looked for meaning with this life we were given.