Meaning Of Life Quotes

“Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

“Live is meaningful only if you gave it a meaning.”
― T. Harv Eker, The Millionaire Mind Intensive 16 CD set "The Secret Psychology of Wealth" Volume I & II

“Human beings have their great chance in the novel.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

“A life thus names a restless activeness, a destructive-creative force-presence that does not coincide fully with any specific body. A life tear the fabric of the actual without ever coming fully 'out' in a person, place, or thing. A life points to ... 'matter in variation that enters assemblages and leaves them. A life is a vitality proper not to any individual but to 'pure immanence,' or that protean swarm that is not actual though it is real: 'A life contains only virtuals. It is made of virtualities.”
― Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things

“If 'dead' matter has reared up this curious landscape of fiddling crickets, song sparrows, and wondering men, it must be plain even to the most devoted materialists that the matter of which he speaks contains amazing, if not dreadful, powers, and may not impossibly be, as Thomas Hardy has suggested, 'but one mask of many worn by the Great Face behind.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“Le Requiem de Mozart. Un souffle de l'au-delà y plane. Comment croire, après une pareille audition, que l'univers n'ait aucun sens? Il faut qu'il en ait un. Que tant de sublime se résolve dans le néant, le coeur, aussi bien que l'entendement, refuse de l'admettre. Quelque chose doit exister quelque part, un brin de réalité doit être contenu dans ce monde. Ivresse du possible qui rachète la vie. Craignons le retombement et le retour du savoir amer...”
― Emil Cioran, Notebooks

“Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use his reasoning faculty in all matters involving truth, and especially as concerning his religion. He must learn to distinguish between truth and error.”
― John A. Widtsoe, Rational Theology

“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.”
― Henry James, Roderick Hudson

“...‘All this suffering,’ I said, ‘and nothing but greed and violence to build on when the war is over.’
‘Have another soda-mint,’ said Charles.
I had one. Then I said, ‘Why are we here? That’s what I don’t understand. Why be here at all when it all has to be so beastly?’
‘I suppose we just came, like mould on cheese.’
‘Then why do we want to be happy? Mould on cheese doesn’t want to be happy.’ ...”
― Joyce Dennys, Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945

“Sophie Bach from The Maker:

You’re a human being with a personality and a will, and you make choices and think and create. Is there no meaning to you, Adrien Bach?

And what about us? Is the way we feel about each other just simulated emotions from some biological process—nothing more?”
― Wes Moore, The Maker

“Can this be happiness, this terrifying freedom?”
― Albert Camus

“В ту пору Корнелий, выскакивая из дома, замечал всякую мелочь. Как переливается радуга в капельке росы: чуть поведёшь головой - и солнечная искра делается то алой, то лимонной, то фиолетовой... Как золотятся свежие щепки у недостроенной беседки. Как торопится в щель на крыльце чёрно-зелёный жук (и на спине у него тоже точка солнца)...
Может, в этой нехитрой радости созерцания как раз и есть смысл жизни?”
― Vladislav Krapivin, Выстрел с монитора. Гуси-гуси, га-га-га...

“I am reborn. This is my dawn. Real life has just begun. Deliberate living. Conscious attention to your immediate environment and its concerns. examples include: a job, a task, a book, anything requiring efficient concentration. (Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon….what it means to you).
The Great Holiness of FOOD, the Vital Heat.
Positivism, the Insurpassable Joy of the Life Aesthetic.
Absolute Truth and Honesty.
Reality.
Independence.
Finality-Stability-Consistency.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“(...) The people I chatted with in Kito's didn't seem to doubt that I'd been to the top of the Thumb; they just didn't mcuh care. (...) Less than a month after sitting on the summit of the Thumb, I was back in Boulder, nailing up siding on the Spruce Street Townhouses, the same condosI'd been framing when I left for Alaska. (...) It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. When I decided to go to Alaska that April, like Chris McCandless, I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. And I lived to tell my tale.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“I find the whole world at my command. The elements, which seem so mysterious, the scriptures, which seem so contradictory —all things are made clear in the great light of God. In that Light everything is understood and mastered. To gain this wisdom of God is the only purpose for which you were sent here; and if you seek anything else instead, you are going to punish yourself. Find your Self and find God.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, To be Victorious in Life

“The whole life is a struggle between the things that give meaning to life and the things that take meaning out of life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It is essential to understand that for humans to thrive as a healthy species, we must live in a society that nurtures the capacity to love one another. We need to live in a world that promotes unity instead of division, restraint and sacrifice over immediate gratification, and altruistic values rather than narcissistic ones. Unfortunately, our current culture is deeply entrenched in consumerism and hedonism, actively endorsing attitudes, values, and aspirations that are fundamentally at odds with the needs of our soul”
― Enric Mestre Arenas, THE MODERN WORLD AGAINST THE HUMAN SOUL: Exploring modernity's impact on the human spirit and well-being

“Often, when someone gets engrossed in the focused endeavor of deconstructing ideas and beliefs, they may lose a sense of meaning. They may lose sight of the inherent Light that exists at the source and remains present and available, even amidst the practice of “stripping away the false,” to find their true essence.
At this time, we recommend that anyone here, attracted to or involved in this practice of negation, stripping away the false, to embark and reclaim your dedication to yourself and pivot into a new way. The old ways of this practice have long been detrimental to many human psyches, and the profound depth of the pathway of negation are not often fully comprehended by those who embark upon it.
In its place, we offer the practice of “re-knowing”, which will be demonstrated within various Soul Play experiences to come. This new approach is rooted in a space of self-loving negotiation and offers balance to the system of the practitioner.”
― Gwen Juvenal, "The Seed" Journal: A Space for Recording Your Soul Experiences and Expansive Journeys

“It is the 'ideologies' that drive us to extreme limits, not the commodities.”
― Shaikh Mahmud bin Ilyas

“The trials of evolution programme a human race for aggression, not wisdom. And once capitalism gets underway human relationships become regulated by systems that deliver behaviour into a killing zone of selfishness and greed. The Tension Dynamic, p165”
― Art Hardy, The Tension Dynamic: Can Humanity Navigate The Birth Canal?

“Cup of Coffee (The Sonnet)

A cup is just crockery
till there is coffee in it.
A head is just a skull
till there's a mind in it.

Clothes are just fabric
till there's a character in 'em.
Shoes are just footwear
till there's a journey in 'em.

Chest is just a bunch of bones
till there's a heart in it.
A body is just a bag of flesh
till there's a being in it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Only the sensual aspects of our life have any meaning.”
― Lebo Grand

“Anyway, wanting to do something is a good sign. You can't really go on living without it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Time has no meaning when every day is vexing.”
― Betsey Kulakowski, The Pirate's Curse

“We saw that without God, life has no ultimate meaning. Yet atheist philosophers continue to live as though life does have meaning. For example, Sartre argued that one may create meaning for his life by freely choosing to follow a certain course of action. Sartre himself chose Marxism. Unfortunately, this is totally inconsistent. It is inconsistent to say life is objectively absurd and then to say you may create meaning for your life. [...] For the universe doesn’t really acquire meaning just because I happen to give it one. For the universe without God remains objectively meaningless, no matter how we happen to regard it. Sartre is really saying, “Let’s pretend the universe has meaning.” And this is just fooling yourself.”
― William Lane Craig, On Guard for Students: A Thinker's Guide to the Christian Faith

“If we pursue excellence, wealth and honour are bound to follow, in the purest way, from the good that we have done. But if we pursue wealth, as it were, putting the cart before the horse, we may end up with only the wealth, without the honour, or the good, or the excellence, which, for a life well lived, are worth far more than mere wealth.”
― Neel Burton, Augustus: Invitation to Philosophy

“If you think your life is worth nothing, just zoom out, and you'll realize, in the vastness of space and time, the entire humankind is worth nothing. What's a mere 70-80 years, live it out anyway! What you got to lose, except your meaninglessness! Life's meaning comes from life, life's meaning is measured by life. Live life to lift up those around, that's the greatest meaning of life you can find.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Take God out of the world, and we might as well take the life out of the world. Take God out of life, and we might as well take our lives.”
― Sevens, Lessons From Life's End: Four Short Pieces of Parting Wisdom for a Meaningful Existence

“Eine Welt voller Schutt und Asche, und die einzig Überlebenden hatten keinen Lebenssinn.”
― Arden Skye, Crossroads -- March of Robots