Julien Green Quotes

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

The meaning of life is life.

When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

'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.

No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

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

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?

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

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Although it might be awful. That's why it's an illusion to think that we really run our lives. We don't.

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

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

The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.