1,900 Quotes About Meaning

Noise in the form of words'; that’s what life is about.

Without understanding, there is no life. Either you act, out of understanding or act to develop understanding out of it.

Beautiful is the man who leaves a legacy that of shared love and life. It is he who transfers meaning, assigns significance and conveys in his loving touch the fine art and gentle shaping of a life. This man shall be called, Father.

A meaningful life is the life full of meaningful relationships. Create yours.

I have so many questions. Maybe someday, I will learn the meaning of this world or at least be the question to your answers. Some day, I may speak your silence and understand.

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who in­ vented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

And if ever I'm reduced to looking for a meaning to my life, you never can tell, it's in that old mess I'll stick my nose to begin with, the mess of that poor old uniparous whore and myself the last of my foul brood, neither man nor beast.

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don’t require any of this to have a deeper meaning.

As to the causation, of the feeling of meaningless, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying way, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.