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TV program · Drama (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Drama · Comedy

The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't to search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead.

Mr. Peanutbutter

Bojack Horseman · 2014

★ 1.8

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Winifred Holtby

1940

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”

Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

★ 1.9

Novel · Science fiction

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe · 1980

★ 1.9

Novel · Dystopian fiction

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

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale · 1985

★ 2.2

Philosophical literature

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

George Santayana

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress · 1905

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

★ 3.5

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

2003

★ 3.6

Film · Historical drama (film) · Drama (film) · Historical drama · Drama

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

Marcus Aurelius

Gladiator · 2000

★ 3.7

Essay · Philosophical literature

The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

The Myth of Sisyphus · 1942

★ 3.8

Philosophical speech

The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

Pragmatism · 1906

★ 4.3

Speech · Commencement address

It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our lives, from which we make our choices, is very good stuff.

2002

★ 5.2

There ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.

1946

★ 5.3

Novel · Science fiction

The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything...it's Forty-two.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · 1978

★ 6.9