Life Significance Quotes

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

I think life is precious from beginning to end.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

I believe life is precious; I believe that to the marrow of my bones.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

Life is very important to Americans.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.