The Meaning Of Life Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old the meaning of life quotes, the meaning of life sayings, and the meaning of life proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. Charlie Chaplin
Life is a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy, though still at variance upon many points, all agree in this, that every existence is an aim. Joseph Mazzini
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Paul Gauguin
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. Rick Riordan
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. Nikos Kazantzakis
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? Charles Schulz
The true biologist deals with life, with teaming boisterous life, and learns something from it; learns that the first rule of life is living. John Steinbeck
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist. That is all. Oscar Wilde
Man's concern about a meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. Viktor E. Frankl
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Erich Fromm
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. Lillian Dickson
Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it. Reinhold Niebuhr
The purpose of life is to live. The meaning of life is whatever you choose. The secret to life is balance in all things. James A. Murphy
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind! Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The underlying question at the end of our lives always is, "How well did I love?" John Welshons
The meaning of life is that we love one another. The purpose of our lives, it seems to me, is to learn how to do that, so we can create a world where everyone's in love with everyone all the time. Marianne Williamson
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palate, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Marc Chagall
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. Toni Morrison
I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it. Mads Mikkelsen
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. Alan Watts
The meaning of life can be summed up in one word, love itself. Emili Spain
To live is to experience things, not to spend your days pondering the meaning of life. Paulo Coelho
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. Pablo Picasso
A meaningful life is one in which there is a sufficient number of aspects of sufficient value, and a meaningless life is one in which there is not a sufficient number of aspects of sufficient value. Iddo Landau