Meaning Quotes

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. (Aristotle)
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. View quote
Aristotle Onassis
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. View quote
Albert Camus
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. View quote
Václav Havel
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. View quote
Charles de Lint
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. View quote
Graham Greene
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. (Norman Cousins)
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. View quote
Solomon Asch
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out ... and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. View quote
A. E. Housman
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? View quote
Federico Fellini
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. View quote
Rene Magritte
We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated. View quote
Thom Mayne
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. View quote
Graham Greene
The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs. (Viktor Frankl)
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. View quote
George F. Kennan
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. View quote
Henry Miller
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. View quote
Emil Cioran