Carl Jung Quotes

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.

I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

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

As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions made me realize that life is what has meaning - not just individual lives, but all of our lives.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

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.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

I don't think any of us really knows why we're here. But I think we're supposed to believe we're here for a purpose.

From form to formless and from finite to infinite

Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find ourselves somewhere inside the square and in the process of walking outside of it. Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless? Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

The meaning of life is life.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.