Life Meaning Quotes

“I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or connection.
For me, I’m going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of eternity and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others. This is my choice.”
― Mike Ericksen, Upon Destiny's Song

“To live means: to cry and shout, to love, to do silly things, to feel sadness and joy, to even experience horrible, frightening things... and to laugh.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“Hutte, for instance, used to quote the case of a fellow he called "the beach man." This man had spent forty years of his life on beaches or by the sides of swimming pools, chatting pleasantly with summer visitors and rich idlers. He is to be seen, in his bathing costume, in the corners and backgrounds of thousands of holiday snaps, among groups of happy people, but no one knew his name and why he was there. And no one noticed when one day he vanished from the photographs. I did not dare tell Hutte, but I felt that "the beach man" was myself. Though it would not have surprised him if I had confessed it. Hutte was always saying that, in the end, we were all "beach men" and that "the sand" - I am quoting his own words - "keeps the traces of our footsteps only a few moments.”
― Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures

“Maybe none of us really understands what we've lived through or feel we've had enough time."

Never Let Me Go”
― Kasuo Ishiguro

“Live the moment, Seize the day, Carpe diem”
― Lucia Powers

“Life has no script, no playwright, no director, no producer - and no meaning. To the best of our scientific understanding, the universe is a blind and purposeless process, full of sound and fury but signifying nothing. During our infinitesimally brief stay on our tiny speck of a planet, we fret and strut this way and that, and then are heard of no more... terrible things might befall us and no power will come to save us or give meaning to our suffering. There won't be a happy ending, or a bad ending, or any ending at all. Things just happen, one after the other.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow By Yuval Noah Harari & How We Got to Now Six Innovations that Made the Modern World By Steven Johnson 2 Books Collection Set

“I caught sight of myself reflected in the window of the convenience store I'd just come out of. My hands, my feet—they existed only for the store! For the first time, I could think of the me in the window as a being with meaning.

"Irasshaimasé!”
― Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]

“There must be a difference between a Sisyphus who hurries to lift the boulder, despite knowing that it’s going to roll down again and a Sisyphus who – fully aware of this fact – prefers to take a nap or play with his kids before the next lifting.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“In LIFE, many of us are trying to discover who we are and what life really means to us. The truth is “Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself.”
― Dee Waldeck

“Imagine a life without uncertainty. Hope, according to Aeschylus, comes from the lack of certainty of fate; perhaps hope is inherently blind. Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a professional school, graduate program, or executive training program really did predict with great accuracy who would succeed and who would fail. Life would be intolerable—no hope, no challenge.

Thus, we have a paradox. While we all strive to reduce the uncertainties of our existence and of the environment, ultimate success—that is, a total elimination of uncertainty—would be horrific.

Knowing pleasant outcomes with certainty would also detract from life’s joy. An essential part of knowledge is to shrink the domain of the unpredictable. But while we pursue this goal, its ultimate attainment would not be at all desirable.”
― Reid Hastie, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making

“Colors are expressible tune key tone that one can play along the arts of music of life exquisitely the meaning of things”
― Ben Jr Grey

“In a world of ceaseless labor, we are components of the Engine. Eternally struggling, pushing a Sisyphean Boulder in vain. Illusions are the keys that unlock the Doors and keep us moving on.”
― Giannis Delimitsos, A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

“The thing he most compulsively desired, most stubbornly searched and strove for, was granted to him, but more abundantly than is good for a human being. Initially all he dreamed of and wished for, it later became his bitter lot. Those who live for power are destroyed by power, those who live for money by money; service is the ruin of the servile, pleasure the ruin of the pleasure-seeker. Thus it was Steppenwolf's independence that proved his downfall.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“But this means you exist only for the purpose of clearing away the sand, doesn't it?”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Crap. It’s all crap. Living is crap. Life has no meaning. None. Nowhere to be found. Crap. Why doesn’t anybody realize this?”
― K-Ske Hasegawa, Ballad of a Shinigami, Vol. 1

“Life is an escape from emptiness, death may be a return to it.”
― Yohann Dafeu

“Without clear awareness of the short arc of life, nothing means very much.”
― John Taylor Gatto, Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

“What most enlightened people consider as wealth has nothing to do with money. Seeking true wealth may mean seeking deeper relationships, more personal growth, or ways to create more meaning in life. Achieving true wealth means possessing the ability to enjoy the small, ordinary pleasures of life.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua, Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process

“Life is not the word.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“When it is time for me to leave,
Whom do I choose to forgive?
The one I have become or the one I didn’t?”
― Anupama Krishnan, Misplaced Mind

“Keep on fighting like an animal without to lose the romantic and logical nature of a human being,...that's Life.”
― Fernando González y Lozano

“i would offer myself to the one who would give my life a meaning.”
― abdellah

“i would offer my life to the one who give it a meaning.”
― abdellah

“Wer ein Warum hat, eträgt fast jedes Wie.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Cosa c'è, Giada? Qual è il problema?
Sospiro.
‑ Non so come spiegare... Voglio partire, viaggiare, conoscere. C'è... C'è qualcosa che mi sfugge. Non trovo un senso alle cose. Tutto è confuso. La mia vita non ha senso, non ha scopo. Ogni cosa che faccio è guidata dal caso, spinta dall'istinto. Non so dove mi sta portando tutto ciò. Non so se sto guidando la mia vita... Ho paura di vivere una vita banale, insignificante, vuota.
Lo guardo e ho gli occhi lucidi. Mi trema la voce. È la prima volta che lo dico a voce alta.
Ema mi tira a sé e mi abbraccia. (...)
‑ È normale, Giada. Tutti... Tutti passiamo dei momenti così. L'importante è non lasciare che il senso della vita diventi più importante della vista stessa. Sei viva, Giada, sei viva. Non vedi che magia!”
― Giulia Nepote, Una folle danza sfrenata

“I used to believe in happy endings,” the answer followed, spoken in perfect Therian, surprising Alison. “The way every person out there is given with greater cause and deserves happiness. But one person I met told me their theory. I don’t completely agree, but... some of us are just a little stone in an enormous wall, existing just to help push or inspire others.” After taking another bottle, she stroked her cheek and pulled away. “The man will look at the poor stranger and decide not to be him. Some of us suffer just to give an opportunity for others to be happy. If my existence makes someone happy in the future, it’s okay.”
― Ksenia Maseeva, In Unknown Ways

“Life is pretty much the same everywhere, it seemed; ugly, putrid, infested with vermin, full of shameful secrets and dark corners. Still, life is life, and he must make the best of it.”
― E L Voynich

“I think I'm beginning to understand that the quest is the point. Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by grand things; the sublime is not hiding in distant landscapes. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention. It becomes valuable when we value it. It becomes meaningful when we invest it with meaning. The magic is of our own conjuring. Hierophany--that revelation of the sacred--is something that we bring to everyday things, rather than something that is given to us. That quality of experience that reveals to us the workings of the world, that comforts and fascinates us, that ushers us towards a greater understanding of the business of being human: it is not in itself rare. What is rare is our will to pursue it. If we wait passively to become enchanted, we could wait a long time.

But seeking is a kind of work. I don't mean heading off on wild road trips just to see the stars that are shining above your own roof. I mean committing to a lifetime of engagement: to noticing the world around you, to actively looking for small distillations of beauty, to making time to contemplate and reflect. To learning the names of the plants and places that surround you, or training your mind in the rich pathways of the metaphorical. To finding a way to express your interconnectedness with the rest of humanity. To putting your feet on the ground, every now and then, and feeling the tingle of life that the earth offers in return. It's all there, waiting for our attention. Take off your shoes, because you are always on holy ground.”
― Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

“I think I might be a bit mentally disabled.”

“Disabled, eh? Really?”

"Yes, because the others grow up, become acquainted with death, love, and how life is in general. They accept it, and cohabit peacefully with everything. Not me. I cannot get used to it. Every day I am born all over again, and start learning from scratch. Every night it’s as if I were dying, to be reborn in the morning. I suffer from insomnia, maybe that’s why. Your colleague yesterday spoke of the alphabet and the ways they teach us at a young age to interpret things. How do we consider someone unable to learn the alphabet? They’re disabled, I say...”
― Daniele Mencarelli, Tutto chiede salvezza

“Sensuality is the full spectrum of what it means to be alive.”
― Lebo Grand