Meaning Of Life Quotes
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![Sophie Kinsella](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1245821549i/6160._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?”
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![Yuval Noah Harari](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1716926172i/395812._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“So if you want to know the truth about the universe, about the meaning of life, and about your own identity, the best place to start is by observing suffering and exploring what it is.
The answer isn’t a story.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The answer isn’t a story.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
![Max Lucado](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1493056226i/2737._UX200_CR0,10,200,200_.jpg)
“Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.”
― Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
― Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
![Pliny the Elder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1328607731i/302386._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.”
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![Anne Rice](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1383250078i/7577._UY200_CR66,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.”
― Servant of the Bones
― Servant of the Bones
![Leo Tolstoy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651443031i/128382._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“Involuntarily it appeared to me that there, somewhere, was someone who amused himself by watching how I lived for thirty or forty years: learning, developing, maturing in body and mind, and how, having with matured mental powers reached the summit of life from which it all lay before me, I stood on that summit -- like an arch-fool -- seeing clearly that there is nothing in life, and that there has been and will be nothing. And he was amused... But whether that "someone" laughing at me existed or not, I was none the better off. I could give no reasonable meaning to any single action or to my whole life. I was only surprised that I could have avoided understanding this from the very beginning -- it has been so long known to all. Today or tomorrow sickness and death will come (they had come already) to those I love or to me; nothing will remain but stench and worms. Sooner or later my affairs, whatever they may be, will be forgotten, and I shall not exist. Then why go on making any effort?... How can man fail to see this? And how go on living? That is what is surprising! One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.”
― A Confession
― A Confession
![Charles Williams](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1217390107i/36289._CR0,23,200,200_.jpg)
“Why was this bloody world created?"
"As a sewer for the stars," a voice in front of him said. "Alternatively to know God and to glorify Him forever."
" [...] The two answers are not, of course, necessarily alternative.”
― War in Heaven
"As a sewer for the stars," a voice in front of him said. "Alternatively to know God and to glorify Him forever."
" [...] The two answers are not, of course, necessarily alternative.”
― War in Heaven
![Agatha Christie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1589991473i/123715._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something.”
― Endless Night
― Endless Night
“To every thig there is a season,a time for every purpose under the sun.
A time to be born,
and a time to die.
A time to plant,
and a time to recap.
A time to weep,
and I time to laugh
A time to mourn,
and a time to dance.”
― The Holy Bible: King James Version
A time to be born,
and a time to die.
A time to plant,
and a time to recap.
A time to weep,
and I time to laugh
A time to mourn,
and a time to dance.”
― The Holy Bible: King James Version
![Mira Grant](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1380320279i/3153776._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.”
― Feed
― Feed
“I live to enjoy life by the littlest things, feeling the grass between my toes, breathing fresh air, watching the wind sway the trees, enjoying the company of loved ones, a deep conversation, getting lost in a good book, going for a walk in nature, watching my kids grow up. Just the feeling itself of being alive, the absolute amazing fact that we are here right now, breathing, thinking, doing.”
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![Kurt Vonnegut Jr.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1433582280i/2778055._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it:
What is the purpose of life?
Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with:
To be
the eyes
and ears
and conscience
of the Creator of the Universe,
you fool.”
― Breakfast of Champions
What is the purpose of life?
Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with:
To be
the eyes
and ears
and conscience
of the Creator of the Universe,
you fool.”
― Breakfast of Champions
![Michael Crichton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1359042651i/5194._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual Guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away: it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline. Now, what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to his with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of the getting the power changes you so that you won't abuse it. But scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step... There is no discipline... no mastery: old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature... A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is the kind of power that science fosters, and permits.”
― Jurassic Park
― Jurassic Park
“He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? But to act justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.”
― The Holy Bible: King James Version
― The Holy Bible: King James Version
![Hajime Isayama](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1452370635i/5365396._UY200_CR3,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We will die here and trust the meaning of our lives to the next generation.. That is the sole way we can rebel against this cruel world !”
― 進撃の巨人 20 [Shingeki no Kyojin 20]
― 進撃の巨人 20 [Shingeki no Kyojin 20]
“I told them, ‘If you don’t know how to live on anymore, then live for me! If you don’t know the meaning of your life, then make me that meaning and use me as your reason to live.”
― Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 1
― Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 1
![Alberto Caeiro](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1389996766i/322304._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“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 Universe
Because I bring the Universe to itself.”
― The Keeper of Sheep
I’m the Discoverer of Nature.
I’m the Argonaut of true sensations.
I bring a new Universe to the Universe
Because I bring the Universe to itself.”
― The Keeper of Sheep
![Terry Pratchett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235562205i/1654._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.”
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![Viktor E. Frankl](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1542894524i/2782._UX200_CR0,8,200,200_.jpg)
“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true. In logotherapy, love is not interpreted as a mere epiphenomenon of sexual drives and instincts in the sense of a so-called sublimation. Love is as primary a phenomenon as sex. Normally, sex is a vehicle of expression for love. Sex is justified, even sanctified, as soon as, but only as long as, it is a vehicle of love. Thus love is not understood as a mere side-effect of sex; rather, sex is a way of expressing the experience of that ultimate togetherness which is called love.”
― Man’s Search for Meaning
― Man’s Search for Meaning
![Bangambiki Habyarimana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1506434057i/7947977._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
![Abhaidev](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1621070216i/14177542._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“For Marx, the only thing that motivates humans is money. For Freud, it’s libido. And for Schopenhauer, it is the blind metaphysical will. All are horribly wrong. More than anything, man seeks meaning in his life. And in that meaning, he seeks superiority over others.”
― The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
― The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
![Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1298306902i/530476._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”
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![Andrei Platonov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1655610846i/6454067._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?”
― Soul
― Soul
![Maya Angelou](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1379017377i/3503._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.”
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“Life - a meaningless thing, draped in some moments, that can be given any title or definition.”
― In The Name Of Blasphemy
― In The Name Of Blasphemy
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