Meaning Of Life Quotes - Page 5

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.

Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.

Live is meaningful only if you gave it a meaning.

The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.

Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? Those who seek the folly of unrelieved 'happiness'-who fear moods, who shun solitude, who do not know the diginity of occasional depression-can find bliss easily enough: in tranquilizing pills, or in senility. The purpose of life is not to be happy.

What's the meaning of life? Other people.

I used everything you gave me.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question.

These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.