Life Has No Meaning Quotes

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  Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Meaning Of Life

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• Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Giving, Up To You, Humanism

  "Existentialism and Human Emotions".

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• Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Existentialism, Moments

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Atheism, Answers

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• Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny for man. Such a belief is an illusion of humankind's infancy. The meaning of life is what we choose to give it. Meaning grows out of human purposes alone. Nature provides us with an infinite range of opportunities, but it is only our vision and our action that select and realize those that we desire.

  Paul Kurtz

  Independent, Opportunity, Destiny

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• Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

  Rick Warren

  Purpose, God Life, Significance

  Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.15, Harper Collins

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Meaning Of Life, Facts, Reason

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.

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

  Henry Miller

  Life, Positive, Law Of Attraction

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity. Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Lonely, Sacrifice, Doubt

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• Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Life, Responsibility, Term

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1974). “Justice and Mercy”

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• Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

  Neel Burton

  Healthy, Modern Life, Absurd

  Neel Burton (2017). “Growing from Depression, second edition”, p.61, Acheron Press

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• Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Crazy, May

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• Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

  Paul Gauguin

  Meaning Of Life, Limits

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Valentines Day, Fate

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

  Paul Gauguin

  Winning, Order, Evil

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.

  Susan Orlean

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

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• Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.

  Peter Boghossian

  Christian, Religion, Phrases

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• But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

  Margaret Atwood

  People, Use, Plot

  Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.332, Random House

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• Love is when you have the opportunity of turning someone's feelings or trust or vulnerability against them, but you don't. You make promises you don't want to keep, but you keep them because they're right; you help people who can't help you back. [...] Love is when you find something so great, sonecessary, that it becomes more important to you than your own goals, than your own life - not because your life has no meaning without it, but because it gives your life a meaning it never had before.

  Dan Wells

  Opportunity, Love Is, Back Love

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• Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Should, Human Life

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• Recently I quit caffeine. My doctor seems to think that 17 Diet Cokes per day is too much. In case you ever consider getting off caffeine yourself, let me explain the process. You begin by sitting motionlessly in a desk chair. Then you just keep doing that forever because life has no meaning.

  Scott Adams

  Coffee, Thinking, Doctors

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• The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

  Niels Bohr

  Meaning Of Life, Facts

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Practice, Trying

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