W. N. P. Barbellion Quotes

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

The meaning of life is life.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

We all need a meaning to our life.

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

If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?

Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.

I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.

What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.

To be is to be perceived

How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

Life is not measured by the time we live.

Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist."

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!