Meaning Search Quotes

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

If we reject the Christian answer, we still have the problem. We're going to adopt some alternative, because the questions will not go away, the questions of, "What kind of person am I becoming?" and "What is my role in that?" and so on.

I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.

My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

I was born into a religious cult in Indianapolis, straight up. They had an apartment complex in this one area, and there were all these rules. My parents met through church and got married really shortly after, when they were both searching for connection and meaning, just like everyone is when they're 20.

Man will not live without answers to his questions.

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

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

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means.

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

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

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.

How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.

If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

Acting, for me, is not an end in itself. It's more a means to asking the questions I'm obsessed with about life.

I spent many years seeking self-awareness and wondering what I should be doing on this planet.

Trying to work out where you find meaning and sense in a meaningless world is my obsession.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?