Meaning Quotes

"It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world."

"My name means 'sunrise of life.'"

“Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.”

"I always want to find meaning in stuff that sucks - I don't want it to be the end of the sentence."

"Words exist because of meaning; once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words."

Chuang Tzu

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."

Erich Fromm

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

Albert Einstein

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."

"Work is love made visible."

Kahlil Gibran

"Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash."

Studs Terkel

"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."

Stephen Hawking

"And all work is empty save when there is love."

Kahlil Gibran

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

Thornton Wilder

"In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning."

Viktor Frankl

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

Norman Cousins

"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it."

Viktor Frankl

"A poem should not mean But be."

Archibald MacLeish

"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful."

Robert Penn Warren

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another."

Thomas Merton

“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on, and have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear, what remains? Nature remains.”

“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.”

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

“I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been for.”