Life's Significance Quotes

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It’s far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

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

Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.

The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.

'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.

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

As we get older, things seem less important.

If you're not prepared to give some truly independent thought to what this world is all about, then what is the point of being alive?

The meaning of life is life.