Jonas Mekas Quotes

No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

Who does understand life?

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

What is life about? Two things: love and death.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

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

I'm not a fan of small talk but if you want to get into the big questions of life - your deepest regret, your greatest joy - then we're going to have a great chat.

I'm basically a happy person. I'm content with my life and my wife and my family. But you do reach a point where you start to question the absolutes that are supposedly out there, and you realize that there simply are no absolutes.

I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

Life is a question without a standard answer.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.