Kathy Acker Quotes

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

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

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

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

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

At the heart of life lies a mystery that everybody has to wrestle with. What the heck are we doing here? How does this world work, and how do I fit?

We think these big people are very happy, but the truth is they are worse than us. We are just worried about one thing - hunger; they have a thousand worries.

I fell in love with this idea of an old school game character, like Donkey Kong, who looks like a very simple guy but is really wrestling with this very profound struggle: 'What's the meaning of life? What if I don't like this job I've been programmed to do?'

Love life more than the meaning of it?

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

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.

A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation