Meaning Quotes

The word “souvenir” has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something.

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.

I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.

The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?