Jeannette Walls Quotes

The meaning of life is life.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

The lyrics are a lot about those big questions: why are we here, how did we get here, what's the point, and what's next. When those questions come up with fans, I would absolutely share with them what has helped me and where I stand on what it is that I believe.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose.

If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

If you're not prepared to give some truly independent thought to what this world is all about, then what is the point of being alive?

"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself. Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.