Meaning Of Life Quotes

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

~ Frank Herbert

I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him

~ Leo Tolstoy

But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the atheist's head. The orthodox believer likes to think that nothing is left. That, however, is because he has only been accustomed to think in terms of his orthodoxy. In point of fact, a great deal is left.That is immediately obvious from the fact that many men and women have led active, or self-sacrificing, or noble, or devoted lives without any belief in God or immortality. Buddhism in its uncorrupted form has no such belief; nor did the great nineteenth-century agnostics; nor do the orthodox Russian Communists; nor did the Stoics. Of course, the unbelievers have often been guilty of selfish or wicked actions; but so have the believers. And in any case that is not the fundamental point. The point: is that without these beliefs men and women may yet possess the mainspring of full and purposive living, and just as strong a sense that existence can be worth while as is possible to the most devout believers.

~ Julian Huxley

Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

~ E.m. Forster

Science may explain how humans came into being, but it has no answer to the slippery question of how humans should live. Only literature makes it possible to pose such questions in the first place. And if there is no answer, only literature can point to the impossibility of ever finding one.

~ Minae Mizumura

My heart was full and uplifted; it seemed that in my soul the question arose whether such things as Art, literature, science encompassed and completed life or whether there was still something in the distance which encompassed it even more completely and filled it with a far greater happiness.

~ Adalbert Stifter

Noise in the form of words', that’s what life is about.

~ Kaoutar Chahbane

There are days when everything I see seems to me charged with meaning: messages it would be difficult for me to communicate to others, define, translate into words, but which for this very reason appear to me decisive. They are announcements or presages that concern me and the world at once: for my part, not only the external events of my existence but also what happens inside, in the depths of me; and for the world, not some particular event but the general way of being of all things.

~ Italo Calvino

Sometimes you have to cross the boundaries of Death in order to discover the meaning of Life.

~ B.g. Bowers

Don’t complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when you are at the bed of the ocean. At that exact moment, your true self will be revealed. You will really know if you are a believer or an atheist, whether you really love life or hate it as you usually say. All your claims will be tested

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imaginations can provide us

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Then nothing became something, and I was born, and I wrought great havoc in the world in the time allotted to me, and I returned to nothingness

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

When you finally understand the meaning of life, you come to the conclusion it has none after all

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Most of our waking life is make believe. If there was a way to record every dream that crosses our minds, the true nature of humans would be laid bare

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Do you know why we show respect to life when it shows none to us? Family is the answer

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

What life means has individual answers for each of us.

~ Jay Woodman

Life has a plan for each of us, we may not understand the whys on our journey but every event is meaningful nonetheless.

~ Ken Poirot

I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven right here on earth...

~ Ken Poirot

Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The choices we make determines our destiny.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life has only one equation. The equation of giving.

~ Amit Ray

As Sidda joined Vivi in staring out into the darkness of the fields, where hundreds of sunflowers grew, she thought: I will never fully know my mother, any more than I will ever know my father or Connor, or myself. I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?

~ Rebecca Wells

I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

He looked down at the books. There was a long silence. Then he raised his eyes and directed his gaze at Gershon, and Gershon did not look away. I will tell you, Loran what is of importance is not that there may be nothing. We have always acknowledged that as a possibility. What is important is that if indeed there is nothing, then we should be prepared to make something out of the one thing we have left to us -- ourselves. I do not know what else to tell you, Loran. No one is in possession of all wisdom. No one. Gershon sat in silence, looking at Nathan Malkuson.

~ Chaim Potok

Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I have finally figured out the meaning of life: there's no such thing. And that's a beautiful thing, because that means that WE get to choose it ourselves. Life has no meaning besides the meaning you give it. You are indeed the author of your destiny. So why not write a book worth reading?

~ Dean Bokhari

Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way.

~ Enza Vita

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.

~ Louise Erdrich

She asked another question: What does it matter if the rhinos die out? Is it really important that they are saved?This would normally have riled me... but I had come to think of her as Dr. Spock from Star Trek - an emotionless, purely logical creature, at least with regards to her feelings for animals. Like Spock, though, I knew there were one or two things that stirred her, so I gave an honest reply.... to be honest, it doesn't matter. No economy will suffer, nobody will go hungry, no diseases will be spawned. Yet there will never be a way to place a value on what we have lost. Future children will see rhinos only in books and wonder how we let them go so easily. It would be like lighting a fire in the Louvre and watching the Mona Lisa burn. Most people would think 'What a pity' and leave it at that while only a few wept

~ Peter Allison

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Life has only three states-Happiness,Grief and Emptiness.The extreme state of life is emptiness.

~ Deshwal Sachin

Neither can you explain yourself to me. Nor can I explain myself to you. You have your sadness and I have mine.

~ Avijeet Das

When a human being is born the first thing he does is crying.. The rest of his life he'll spend discovering why...

~ Erik Tanghe

I’m a keeper of flocks.The flock is my thoughtsAnd my thoughts are all sensations.I think with my eyes and with my earsAnd with my hands and feetAnd with my nose and mouth.Thinking about a flower is seeing and smelling itAnd eating a piece of fruit is knowing its meaning.That’s why when on a hot dayI feel sad from liking it so much,And I throw myself lengthwise on the grassAnd shut my hot eyes,And feeling my whole body lying on reality,I know the truth and I’m happy.

~ Alberto Caeiro

Any man can grow a moustache and a beard! And this does not make him a man! What it takes to be a man is to help a needy person, stand up for the innocent, and lead one's life in the most courteous, dignified and sophisticated way possible to a man.

~ Avijeet Das