Tim Minchin Quotes

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

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

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

The meaning of life is life.

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

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

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

Being is the great explainer.

Everybody has a purpose.

I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

I suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.