Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.

It was not a life, if lived without love.

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game-interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.

We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

The meaning of life is life.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.

Everybody has to solve that "meaning of life" and purpose question for themselves. Everybody does it their own way. I think you have to be thoughtful about the way that you're doing it. So I describe it as purpose. If you can think about leading a purposeful life - not just an accumulation but you actually make the world a better place - then I think in the grand scheme of the universe, that that explains our existence. If not, we're just passing through. We're grains of sand and we're blowing in the breeze.

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

Some are created to love, while the others - to live.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

But what is life if you don't live it?

I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

Without love we are not truly living.

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

What is the purpose of life? What is the primary objective of life? To live. To sustain itself.