Quotes for All
Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously … Read more
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God’s mind? Freeman Dyson
At the moment I’m so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death. Delmore Schwartz
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. Dalai Lama
The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life. Dalai Lama
Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this? C. Wright Mills
Often people, when they’re confronted with a poem, it’s like someone who keep saying ‘what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?’ And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers. Billy Collins
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, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial … Read more
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good. Aristotle
The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis’s quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are? Anne Rice