Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
Henry Miller
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C.S. LEWIS Life has the meaning you give it, no more, no less.
STEVEN REDHEAD Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
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LARRY GRIFFIN Love is when you find something so great, so . . . necessary, that it becomes more important to y...
DAN WELLS A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
It is hard work t...
CHAIM POTOK Excepting for knowledge nothing has any meaning, and to have no meaning is to be nonexistence
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C. S. LEWIS If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as...
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C. S. LEWIS Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
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DEAN KOONTZ What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.
H. L. MENCKEN I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties an...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow...
BERAN WOLFE Happiness is the sense that my life is good because my biological needs are being met. Meaning is th...
JAMES CASTLETON, MD, MENDING OF A BROKEN HEART Such dreams provide this temporary illusion of a life that has meaning.
ANNA JAE Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that acti...
MOTHER TERESA Silence has thousand meaning with no speech.Some speech may have thousand words with no meaning.
KOWSALAPATHY The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of
NED ROREM The meaning of life is life.
ALAN ALDA That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding i...
LENNY ABRAHAMSON Each perception of life has a meaning as long as the heart is one of the eyes...because if I die ton...
MUSTAFA SAHIN A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it...
MILAN KUNDERA For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters...
VICTOR FRANKL Everything happening to you now is a signal or symbol and has meaning. Your opportunity is to recogn...
RUSSELL ANTHONY GIBBS Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the w...
STEPHEN KING If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
ALBERT CAMUS There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.
KAILASH KHER For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL Again a different meaning has to be understood.
BUDDHA Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Life has no meaning in itself,but only in the meaning we give it. Like the clay in the artists hands...
LAMA ANAGARIKA GOVINDA The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
FIONA SHAW The meaning of life is to give life a meaning.
WENDY MASS Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
VACLAV HAVEL First of all, you can't understand what it is and it has no meaning,
BO DIDDLEY Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning ... and there is wisdom in the ...
BERGEN EVANS Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the sele...
BERGEN EVENS Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the sele...
BERGEN EVANS A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man ...
C. KILMER MYERS There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM Time has no meaning,
Love will endure..
JUDE DEVERAUX For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.
WOLE SOYINKA Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
LEO BUSCAGLIA Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA Maybe the meaning of life, is to give life a meaning.
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ABHIJIT NASKAR Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meani...
JOSé SARAMAGO There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM We have seen that English words have meaning in a sentence because of their position in the sentence...
CHARLTON LAIRD There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM There comes a time when a man has to ask himself whether he wants a life of happiness or a life of m...
LINDERMAN The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an ...
DEEPAK CHOPRA No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have...
BARBARA DE ANGELIS No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have...
BARBARA ANGELIS Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.
The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.
KEITH O'BRIEN Life has a meaning but do not set out to find out. Just live it out.
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA When you finally understand the meaning of life, you come to the conclusion it has none after all
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment.
ELLEN HOPKINS The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
KEN HUDGINS Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life ...
RICHARD M. DEVOS Every Life Has a Color, In every color a meaning, define yours.
DENILSON RENAS ALBERTO MANUEL DA SILVA DI'VILHENA Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
JEANNE MOREAU My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. ...
CHARLES MONROE SCHULZ My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. ...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ What is the meaning of life…to give life meaning.
CLIFFORD COHEN ...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds...
ARTHUR KOESTLER When I asked him the meaning of life, Dr. Webb got very quiet and then told me life has no one meani...
JOHN COREY WHALEY Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res...
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE if we knew the meaning of life it would cease to have meaning
SAMUEL DAVID HIRES Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, l...
ADLIN SINCLAIR Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions mad...
REID HOFFMAN Everything has a hidden secret meaning to be revealed or to be sealed.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Everything has a hidden secret meaning to be revealed or to be sealed.
AULIQ ICE Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is...
BARBARA WARD The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
LEO TOLSTOY When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.
TEMPLE GRANDIN Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res...
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS There is no meaning of life. Life exists, to exist.
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HENRY MILLER [...] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandesc...
HENRY MILLER Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we wo...
HENRY MILLER Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines ...
HENRY MILLER Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
HENRY MILLER I have found God, but he is insufficient.
HENRY MILLER If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want t...
HENRY MILLER I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am...
HENRY MILLER Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was mean...
HENRY MILLER Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living ...
HENRY MILLER In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to c...
HENRY MILLER I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to...
HENRY MILLER You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet n...
HENRY MILLER الكتابة بخط اليد على الجدار ليست غامضة ولا مهددة لمن يس...
HENRY MILLER el mundo nunca deja morir de hambre a una mujer guapa.
HENRY MILLER Es extraño. Había llegado a resignarme tanto a aquella vida sin ella y, sin embargo, si pensaba en...
HENRY MILLER Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas.
HENRY MILLER There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy
HENRY MILLER We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
HENRY MILLER I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, ...
HENRY MILLER Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
HENRY MILLER The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way
HENRY MILLER Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring...
HENRY MILLER One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifli...
HENRY MILLER