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Autobiography and memoir2 quotes
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. — Viktor Frankl · 1946A 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.” — Viktor Frankl · 1946Drama2 quotes
When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. — Marcus Aurelius · 2000The 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 · 2014Philosophical literature2 quotes
The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions. — Albert Camus · 1942That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. — George Santayana · 1905Science fiction2 quotes
The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything...it's Forty-two. — Douglas Adams · 1978There 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. — Douglas Adams · 1980Comedy1 quote
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 · 2014Comedy (TV)1 quote
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 · 2014Commencement address1 quote
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. — Fred Rogers · 2002Drama (TV)1 quote
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 · 2014Drama (film)1 quote
When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. — Marcus Aurelius · 2000Dystopian fiction1 quote
But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Historical drama1 quote
When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. — Marcus Aurelius · 2000Historical drama (film)1 quote
When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. — Marcus Aurelius · 2000Philosophical speech1 quote
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. — William James · 1906