Quotes about Meaning
What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.
— Max Lucado
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.
— Harold S. Kushner
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
— William Barclay
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
— William Barclay
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
— William Faulkner
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
— William Hazlitt
Words are the only things that last for ever.
— William Hazlitt
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
— William James
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
— William James
For a universe without moral accountability and devoid of value is unimaginably terrible.
— William Lane Craig
Mere duration of existence doesn't make that existence meaningful. If man and the universe could exist forever, but if there were no God, their existence would still have no ultimate significance.
— William Lane Craig
If God does not exist, our lives are ultimately meaningless, valueless, and purposeless despite how desperately we cling to the illusion to the contrary.
— William Lane Craig