Juliette Binoche Quotes

Man - a being in search of meaning.

I feel eager to learn as much as I can, not only about my craft but the world and the cosmos and how we got here and whether there's any purpose to our being here.

Trying to work out where you find meaning and sense in a meaningless world is my obsession.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning.

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.

The meaning of life is life.

There are people who are seekers and people who aren't.

I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.

I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

I like the big questions.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

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

I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.

Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning.

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.