Emo Philips Quotes

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

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

I have a rendezvous with life.

The meaning of life is life.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

I always think about life, and I think that we are here with a mission, and once we have done our mission, we go somewhere else.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

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 seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

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?

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

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

As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions made me realize that life is what has meaning - not just individual lives, but all of our lives.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

'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.

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

I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.