Christopher Fry Quotes

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why.

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.

I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that we make meaning is through the telling of our stories. Stories connect us, teach us, and warn us never to forget.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

The president Donald Trump understands, we have to get unity across the world. We really have to make sure that we're doing everything we can to unify everyone against ISIS.

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.

What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.

We find our happiness to the extent to which we use our minds to bless the world, for that is the natural use of the mind. It is the reason we were born.

Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?

Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.

It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

We’re all alive, but we don’t know why or what for; we’re all searching for happiness; we’re all leading lives which are different and yet the same.

The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

And this is the best chance to begin to establish the New World Order.