Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

The meaning of life is life.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.

An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.

Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Life's objective is life itself.

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.

Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.

The purpose of life is life.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.

You are here for a reason.

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?