Meaning Of Life Quotes

“You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.”
― Deborah Day

“If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-adapted to its purpose in the world: for it is absurd to suppose that the endless affliction of which the world is everywhere full, and which arises out of the need and distress pertaining essentially to life, should be purposeless and purely accidental. Each individual misfortune, to be sure, seems an exceptional occurrence; but misfortune in general is the rule.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.”
― Douglas Adams

“The liberal story instructs me to seek freedom to express and realise myself. But both the ‘self’ and freedom are mythological chimeras borrowed from the fairy tales of ancient times. Liberalism has a particularly confused notion of ‘free will’. Humans obviously have a will, they have desires, and they are sometimes free to fulfil their desires. If by ‘free will’ you mean the freedom to do what you desire – then yes, humans have free will. But if by ‘free will’ you mean the freedom to choose what to desire – then no, humans have no free will.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning of things.”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

“Many find in sex and economics the meaning of life and the reason of it all. The consequence of this is that the goal of life for many has become a relief of tension.”
― Sachindra Kumar Majumdar

“Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.”
― Ray Bradbury, Now and Forever

“My joy is that there is no such world at all, but that the substance of life is in everyone! There is no reason to be troubled because we are absurd, is there? For we really are: we are absurd, frivolous, we have bad habits, we're bored, we don't know how to look around ourselves, we don't know how to understand, we are all like this, all of us, you, and I, and everyone! And you aren't offended by my telling you straight to your faces that you are absurd? There is the basic stuff of life in your, isn't there? You know, I believe it's sometimes even good to be ridiculous. Yes, much better. People forgive each other more readily and become more humble, we can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection! To reach perfection there must first be much we do not understand. And if we understand too quickly we will probably not understand very well. I tell this to you who have been able to understand so much and - do not understand.'

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― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“সবচেয়ে হাস্যকর কথা হচ্ছে একদিন আমরা কেউ থাকবো না।”
― Humayun Azad

“I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside.
I don’t believe I exist behind myself.”
― Alberto Caeiro, Selected Poems (By Fernando Pessoa)

“If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.”
― Dan Wells, Ruins

“What does this think about that?
Nothing thinks about anything.
Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants?
If it did, it would be people. . .
Why am I worrying about this?
If I think about these things,
I’ll stop seeing trees and plants
And stop seeing the Earth
For only seeing my thoughts...
I’ll get unhappy and stay in the dark.
And so, without thinking, I have the Earth and the Sky.”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

“I don't think it's a question of liking or disliking it," Tengo said..."It was the one thing he was best at." "Hmm. I see," Kumi said. She pondered this. "But that might very well be the best way to live your life.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Men's lives are short .
The hard man and his cruelties will be
Cursed behind his back and mocked in death.
But one whose heart and ways are kind - of him
strangers will bear report to the whole wide world,
and distant men will praise him.

- Penelope in Robert Fitzgerald trans. THE ODYSSEY (364)”
― Robert Fitzgerald, The Odyssey

“Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.”
― Melina Marchetta, The Piper's Son

“All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other,
Wanting to do good, wanting to do evil.
Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us.
To want more is to lose this, and be unhappy.”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

“The best way of handling astrological transits is to go with the flow. If the Universe is leading you to a certain place by hook or by crook, there’s probably a reason.”
― Cate East, Success Astrology: Your Celestial Map of Success

“Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality?”
― Kara Dalkey, Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction

“Life isn't about finding yourself, or finding anything. Life is about creating yourself. And creating things.”
― Bob Dylan

“1877. The vocation of humanity is to show forth the image of God and to be transformed into the image of the Father's only Son. This vocation takes a personal form since each of us is called to enter into the divine beatitude; it also concerns the human community as a whole.”
― Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

“Praise be to God I’m not good,
And have the natural egotism of flowers
And rivers following their bed
Preoccupied without knowing it
Only with blooming and flowing.
This is the only mission in the World,
This—to exist clearly,
And to know how to do it without thinking about it.)”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

“Money without time is next to meaningless.”
― Richie Norton

“Our objective as a realist is to maximize our worth, and our objective as a romanticist is to be foolishly youthful.”
― Bongha Lee, On Resistism

“Humans are born to die, anything in between is just pure nonsense.”
― Anupam S Shlok

“The purpose of life is life.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Your life would never have a meaning if you don’t have a goal or purpose”
― Sunday Adelaja

“A life without concrete product is a meaningless one”
― Sunday Adelaja

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“People have't found meaning in their lives so they're running all the time looking for it.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“I think life is one big fluctuation between horniness and a sincere quest for meaning. We just call one the other.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song