“ Sometimes life is intensely interesting and meaningful, and this meaning seems to be an objective fact, like sunlight. At other times it's as meaningless and futile as the wind. We accept this eclipse… Colin Wilson
“ We put our faith in things great and small. We assign to them meaning they may actually have, or meaning that we need for them to have in order to carry on. Kay Redfield Jamison
“ To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory. Madeleine L'Engle
“ If I am going to be drowned-- if I am going to be drowned--if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and… Stephen Crane
“ God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to d… Tess Gerritsen
“ Exactly! said Deep Thought. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. Douglas Adams
“ All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here. Jodi Picoult
“ A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cann… Carl Jung
“ Meaning is often found embedded in the silent moments of our lives when we can hear and see what matters most, the things audible and visible only to the spirit. Toni Sorenson
“ [Your] search for meaning in the world... can only really be fulfilled by the greater purpose that has sent [you] here in the first place. The New Message from God
“ We have been so busy perfecting the means of travel that we have forgotten where we wanted to go. Arthur M. Young
“ To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble. Bill Watterson
“ Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve? Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ Where was the threshold, between the inner world and the outer one? We each move unthinkingly through this gateway every day, we use the passwords of grammar----paying for the privilege of sanity with… Margaret Atwood
“ We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“ There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word . It has been preached by those who were ready to condone every cruelty if it served their purpose; it has b… Erich Fromm
“ The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality; all else being the play of thought. But it might as well be our greatest folly… Irvin D. Yalom
“ The existentialist, on the contrary, finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no lo… Jean-Paul Sartre
“ For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have neve… Jean-Paul Sartre
“ Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning. Paulo Coelho
