Purpose of Existence Quotes

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

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

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

But what is life if you don't live it?

The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

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

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

The purpose of life is life.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.

Why should anything happen when everything has happened?

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Is that all souls are for? For when we die?" "No. They're for living, too.

Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.

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

There is a reason why all things are as they are.