Jules Renard Quotes

The meaning of life is life.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

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.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.

Life is not a tour of gas stations.

A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about.

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

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

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

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

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

How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'

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.

But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.