Woody Allen Quotes

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

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.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

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

Man - a being in search of meaning.

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

There is also a need that each should understand where he came from and what he is -- and what will become of him.

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

The lyrics are a lot about those big questions: why are we here, how did we get here, what's the point, and what's next. When those questions come up with fans, I would absolutely share with them what has helped me and where I stand on what it is that I believe.

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an unravelling accident or an inscrutable design. I don’t know how one should live—but I know that one should live, if one can possibly bear it.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.