114 quotes found
“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
“The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.”
“The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch ...”
“Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.”
“I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of...”
“Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.”
“Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways cannot be known, oh man." Which is to say, "My ways do not make sense, nor do the ways of those who dw...”
“You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.”
“The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.”
“Involuntarily it appeared to me that there, somewhere, was someone who amused himself by watching how I lived for thirty or forty years: learning, developing, maturing in body and mind, and how, ha...”
“To every thig there is a season,a time for every purpose under the sun.A time to be born,and a time to die.A time to plant,and a time to recap.A time to weep,and I time to laughA time to mourn,and ...”
“He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? But to act justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.”
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”
“The end is not the reward; the path you take, the emotions that course through you as you grasp life - that is the reward.”
“You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you do.”
“Most of us move through life with little chance to learn much about ourselves. We know some things we like and some things we dislike, we have a few ideas about what makes us happy, and we die in i...”
“Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.”
“A meaningless life for a human being has none of the dignity of animal unselfconsciousness; we cannot simply eat, sleep, hunt and reproduce - we are meaning-seeking creatures. The Western world has...”
“Embrace your struggles. They are making you the person you were meant to be.”
“Life no longer felt meaningless. It felt stressful and terrifying, but it definitely didn't feel meaningless.”