Quotes about Meaning
No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.
- Thomas Monson
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
- Ayn Rand
All men know their children mean more than life.
- Euripides
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
- Pope John Paul II
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.
- Thomas Merton
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one
- Albert Camus
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.
- GK Chesterton