I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.
Man's existence precedes his essence
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
You the girl I been lookin' for my whole life God bless me, I'm glad I got the insight Because of you girl, now I understand life
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.
Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.
What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?
