Glen Duncan Quotes

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

Life is a question without a standard answer.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Who does understand life?

I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.

Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

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.

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?

Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

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.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Philosophy is an act of living.

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

Life is not measured by the time we live.

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

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

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.