What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
-Charlie Chaplin
Quotations
Life
You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
-Jean Paul Sartre "Jean-Paul Sartre"
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.
-Charles M. Schulz
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Rise to the occasion which is life!
-Virginia Euwer Wolff
