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"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us."
"That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff."
"If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete."
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
"The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought."
"Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation."
"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man."
"I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got."
"If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility"
"But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account."
"I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived."
"He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty."
"Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is."
"The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life."
"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked."
"Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
"God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality."
"Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding."
"I used everything you gave me."
"The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either."
