Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

If you cannot render me a reason how I came hither, and what I am, I must go to those who will render me one. And if that craving be not satisfied by a rational theory of life, it will demand satisfaction from some magical theory;

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

The meaning of life is life.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

At the heart of life lies a mystery that everybody has to wrestle with. What the heck are we doing here? How does this world work, and how do I fit?