Meaning Quotes - page 3

The meaning of life is that it stops. (Franz Kafka)
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us. View quote
Milan Kundera
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. View quote
Marc Chagall
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. View quote
Richard M. DeVos
[T]he only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it. View quote
Daniel Dennett
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. View quote
Max Frisch
The true human being ... is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities. View quote
David Zindell
My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point. View quote
James Thurber
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. View quote
Michael Shermer
We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future. View quote
John Dewey
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. (Alfred Marshall)
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. View quote
Zane Grey
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. View quote
Viktor Frankl
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. View quote
Viktor Frankl
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. View quote
Viktor Frankl
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.... Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went. View quote
Robert Frost
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. View quote
Hal Borland
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. (Margaret Atwood)
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers--in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning. View quote
Arvo Pärt
Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it. View quote
Philip Pullman