1,900 Quotes About Meaning

Even so, I’m somebody.I’m the Discoverer of Nature.I’m the Argonaut of true sensations.I bring a new Universe to the UniverseBecause I bring the Universe to itself.

Words got the power to hurt or heal.

Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the second view.

I pass and I stay, like the Universe.

When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems by that ungodly anti-humanist who goes unsurpassed on earth.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever.

We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.