1,900 Quotes About Meaning

If you can make your ancestors real for yourself, learn their stories and who they were, your life - and death - will take on added meaning. You will see yourself in the Big Picture that includes all human life that has come and gone on the planet.

[S]he might yet reveal depths of strangeness, if not of meaning.

Everything on earth has meant something to someone, and there has never been a person whom no one ever loved.

Neither of us was quite sure what the other meant, but, as in dreams, our words could be taken in so many ways, which was fine too, because we liked thinking they had more than one meaning, one obvious, one not so obvious, one hinted at but so muddled that neither of us knew which to grasp, because each was so laced into the others that all three ultimately meant one and the same thing.

the existentialists did say that life was all about pulling the victory of meaning from the jaws of senseless absurdity

When people don't understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as though they're still oppressed.

So much you could forget — the sequence of your own life. Maybe humans weren't meant to live this long, maybe brains couldn't retain this much life, maybe the natural way of things was to die at thirty, when you could still remember it all, or most of it.

The key to a happy life isn't to manipulate the conditions around me so I can feel better, the key is to change the meaning I give it and find happiness, no matter what's going on!

Actions are the true words of the heart.