Existence Meaning Quotes

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing that I cannot accept it as a brute fact....I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.

We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?

When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with the most precious truths that we discover in our brief existence in this world. Just before fatigue envelopes us, taking us into sleep. We think of what our lives actually mean. And then we know how lucky we are if we still enjoy consciousness, rationality and love. But the greatest of these is love.

What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?

There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.

Everything in the universe has a purpose.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why.

The answer to the nature of our existence is somewhere in the middle, and that, of course, is what we're looking for: how to see ourselves in a new picture of ourselves and understand the questions that humans have asked forever, "Who are we, how did we get here, where are we going, and what's the nature of this reality that we're in?"

The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.