Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

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

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

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

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

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

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

Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will.

Everything I do is somehow rooted in humanity. It's always about people; it's always about ego. It's always about desperation. It's quite existential. You know, 'Am I leading a good life?' That might be because I'm an atheist, and I think this is all we've got, so you better be nice. And have fun.

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

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

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

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

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.

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

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.