Arvo Part Quotes

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life.

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.

By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

When I first started writing music, it was to express that. I was trying to find God and trying to find meaning in my life. That's what my music was about. It wasn't to entertain.

The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface trembling—it seems ready to give but it never does. I am uninterested in current events. How can I justify this? How can I explain it? I don't want to have the same vocabulary I've always had. I want something richer, broader, more penetrating and powerful.

Warriors of light frequently ask themselves what they are doing here. Very often they believe their lives have no meaning. That is why they are warriors of light. Because they make mistakes. Because they ask questions. Because they continue to look for a meaning. And, in the end, they will find it.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.