It was not for any man to understand to the uttermost the meaning of life.

Perhaps that meaning will be the meaning of life, in which case I am longing for the unattainable.

The meaning of life is never understood till it is past.

Since a man does not alter, and his moral character remains absolutely the same all through his life; since he must play out the part which he has received, without the least deviation from the character; since neither experience, nor philosophy, nor religion can effect any improvement in him, the question arises, What is the meaning of life at all?

The first criminal and murderer, Cain, who acquired a knowledge of guilt, and through guilt acquired a knowledge of virtue by repentance, and so came to understand the meaning of life, is a tragical figure more significant, and almost more respectable, than all the innocent fools in the world put together.

And here we are today, in the twentieth century, when intelligent people have long been striving after a spiritual explanation of the meaning of life, trying to prove its upward trend, trying to beat out of it materialism, endeavoring to find in altruism a road to happiness, and governments can still find no better way to settle their disputes than wholesale slaughter, and

For it's all these months together, it's all our happinessit's the meaning of life that I've found, and it's you, dearest, you who've given it to me!" He dropped down beside her again; but she disengaged herself and he heard a little sob in her throat.

To Channing, also, he expressed gratitude for helping to wake in him a new sense of the meaning of life and religion.

Everything mysteriously brewing in the air at the time of some great world-event, all that is hidden in the human soul in moments of supreme experience, is given expression; what the spirit anxiously locks up and screens is freely and unreservedly exposed; we learn the meaning of life and know not how.

It was a summons to the people of Semur by namemyself at the head as Maire (and I heard afterwards that every man who saw it saw his own name, though the whole façade of the Cathedral would not have held a full list of all the people of Semur)to yield their places, which they had not filled aright, to those who knew the meaning of life, being dead.

The natives said that the austerities of Gobind were the envy of the gods; that he could hold still the blood in his veins from dusk to dawn; and make the listener understand many wonderful things about himself and the meaning of life.

Though he was intense and eager in his quest for true happiness and in his analysis of the meaning of life, he found no abiding joy, for his outlook was sadly circumscribed.

He has dreamed too much and reflected too much on the meaning of life; his suffering is too original in himself, too self-centred, and at the same time too much, based on the inherent misery of existence, to allow him to project himself into and suffer with any individual grief, no matter how nearly it might be allied to him and to his personal interest.

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Thoughts on the meaning of life.

Hence it follows that love is the meaning of life, and that he who finds it not loses what he lived for And eternally must lose it.

" But whoever has resolved the common illusions of the meaning of life, and has seen even in glimpses the naked mystery of our being, finds that he absolutely must live in the world which is outside city walls.

There can be nothing more important in literary art, and indeed in one's articulate conception of the meaning of life, than the notion of what is beautiful.

First, then, let me tell you what I myself mean by the term "loyalty." Then let me deal with my principal thesis, which is that the true spirit of loyalty is not merely a proper accompaniment of all serious work, but is an especially important source of a very deep insight into the meaning of life, and, as I personally believe, into the nature of the whole universe.

Our impatience with the method that Nature has provided for influencing human conduct is largely due to our idea of the meaning of life.

You roused my heart with high hopes; you raised my aims from paltry and vain pursuits to those which lasted and fed the soul; you inspired me with a great ambition, and made me see the worth and the meaning of life.

During these few minutes I seemed to have learned the meaning of life and of death.