Ruth Ozeki Quotes

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Sometimes the best course in the search for the meaning of life is to busy yourself until you forget that you don't know the meaning of life

Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

Life is everything, and you haven't lived it properly until you believe.

It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth.

I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.

Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.

The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff.