Hortense Odlum Quotes

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

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.

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.

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

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

I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

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.

I'll spend the rest of my life chasing that feeling I had on 'The Grey,' because I think we're all aware that, first and foremost, we were having an adventure, and we were also making this movie at the same time.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

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

What is the value of your existence?

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

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.

Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.

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

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.