Robert Fulghum Quotes

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

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

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

If you cannot render me a reason how I came hither, and what I am, I must go to those who will render me one. And if that craving be not satisfied by a rational theory of life, it will demand satisfaction from some magical theory;

What is life about? Two things: love and death.

I love the idea of a very simple 8-bit video game character struggling with the complex question: 'isn't there more to life than the role I've been assigned?'

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?'

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

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

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?