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...

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever

Often, when I have been feeling lonely, when a book as been thrust aside in boredom […] I have lain back and stared at the shadows on the ceiling, wondering what life is all about...

If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-adapted to its purpose in the world: for it is absurd to suppose that the endless affliction...

Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world …

Life and all that is in itis a gift from the infinite mind;And the only way that life can go wrongis by the limited finite mind.

Ah! This is retribution for Promethean fire! Besides being patient, you must also love this sadness and respect your doubts and questions. They are an abundant excess, a luxury of life, and they appear more...

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence…

We Born, Get Education, Get Jobs, Earn, Spend, Save And Eventually Die. That Can’t Be Right. There Must Be Something Important We’re Missing. We’re Too Busy Following That Same Circle That We Forget Our Main...

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out...

Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it’s an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our...

A life of short duration…could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

There seemed no answer. He wasn’t resigned to anything, he hadn’t accepted or adjusted to the life he’d been forced into. Yet here he was, eight months after the plague’s last victim, nine since he’s...

… things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren’t, we would not be here to notice.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

The Moral of life: is not to make lemonade, is not to bite through the hard times, Not to have loss.For you will lose. Hard times do get the best of you. Life doesnt allways...

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life.

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I’ve never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I’m a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler,...

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if...

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

Human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they’re not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern.

We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to...

We often forget how thirsty we are because we believe we will fulfill our dreams.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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...

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.

You live,” I said, “Knowing you will die. Everyone lives every day knowing they could die at any moment. And yet they carry on. They lift their heads high and carry on and build a...

The best things in life make you sweaty.

What better way to oppose the monopolisation of truth and meaning than to go in search of their foundations within one’s own psyche?

—,Y qué ocurre cuando uno muere?—Tampoco yo lo sé.—Entonces, ,por qué tener miedo? —dice Oswald—. Yo creo que no ocurre nada.Y si ocurre algo que es mejor que nada, pues mejor que mejor.—,Y si lo...

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.

The soul needs meaning as much as the body needs food.

Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths,...

I learned that one person hurting another really is like a hand curling into a fist to smash the foot. And that all that really matters is family and other people. And that the purpose...

As far as we can tell, from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose. Our actions are not...

I was pondering the reason why we are all here in this life, and what did it all mean. It seemed to me that we had all been invited to one big party, but no-one’s...

And when you die only your thoughts that have reached paper remain. Finally when someone stumbles upon those words, reads about your loves and your losses, you touch them emotionally and for a time they...

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Then you think, is this a better world, closer to theone before you knew of wars—earth wars? Before you found that canary in its cagelaying, barely heaving. And you took it outside and said, Go...

When you don’t know what you’re living for, you don’t care how you live from one day to the next. You’re happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep...

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....

…‘All this suffering,’ I said, ‘and nothing but greed and violence to build on when the war is over.’‘Have another soda-mint,’ said Charles.I had one. Then I said, ‘Why are we here? That’s what I...

This is everybody’s journey: to be experienced and witnessed within the confines of this frailty, which is our human body that moves towards its inevitable end. The only way to strengthen this frailty is to...

Une petite fille rentre de la plage, au crépuscule, avec sa mère. Elle pleure pour rien, parce qu’elle aurait voulu continuer de jouer. Elle s’eloigne. Elle a déjà tourné le coin de rue, et nos...

I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.

The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been different in our own society – that the way we live...

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. “What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end,...

It’s never too early to think about your legacy,” she would say. “Don’t you want to leave some kind of mark that you were here?

I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that...