Top 200 Meaning of Life Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

— Henry David Thoreau

52. “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

53. “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

54. “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

— C. S. Lewis

55. “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”

— Saint Augustine

56. “If your life is worth thinking about, it is worth writing about.”

— Robin S. Sharma

57. “Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.”

— Robin S. Sharma

58. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

— Helen Keller

59. “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.”

— William Shakespeare

60. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

61. “The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.”

— David Viscott

62. “Art is the proper task of life. ”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

63. “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”

— Paul the Apostle

64. “I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.”

— Khalil Gibran

65. “And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’”

— Kurt Vonnegut

66. “I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.”

— Osho

67. “Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.”

— Steve Jobs

68. “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

— Joseph Campbell

69. “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”

— Joseph Campbell

70. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

71. “The question, O me! so sad, recurring – What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here – that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”

— Walt Whitman

72. “Enjoy life – you only get one.”

— Richard Branson

73. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

— Mother Teresa

74. “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

— Alan Watts

75. “Making a living is not the same thing as making a life.”

— Maya Angelou

76. “Listen – are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”

— Mary Oliver

77. “One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.”

— Jim Rohn

78. “True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.”

— Eckhart Tolle

79. “In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”

— Lao Tzu

80. “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.”

— Marcus Aurelius

81. “Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

82. “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

— Philip Pullman

83. “Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.”

— John Wooden

84. “Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.”

— Osho

85. “We are born of love. Love is our mother.”

— Rumi

86. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”

— Thomas Merton

87. “Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” – and find that there is no death.”

— Eckhart Tolle

88. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

— Rumi

89. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

— Norman Cousins

90. “Only the present moment contains life.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

91. “What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

92. “I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.”

— Rumi

93. “Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”

— Alan Watts

94. “Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

— William Shakespeare

95. “I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”

— Rumi

96. “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”

— J.K. Rowling

97. “Our own life has to be our message.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

98. “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

— Hafez

99. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

— Henry David Thoreau

100. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

— Omar Khayyam