Top 200 Meaning of Life Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.”

— Maya Angelou

152. “The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life.”

— Bill Phillips

153. “One must give value to one’s existence by behaving as if one’s very existence were a work of art.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

154. “There are essentially two questions in life – a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is ‘Who am I?’ The material question is ‘What am I to do with my life?’ One leads to the other.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

155. “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

— Rumi

156. “Live is meaningful only if you gave it a meaning.”

— T. Harv Eker

157. “Yesterday is but a dream, Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”

— Kālidāsa

158. “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

— Henry David Thoreau

159. “Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.”

— Leo Tolstoy

160. “Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”

— Rita Mae Brown

161. “For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.”

— Leo Tolstoy

162. “You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.”

— Annie Lennox

163. “If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.”

— Leo Tolstoy

164. “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”

— Khalil Gibran

165. “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.”

— Leo Tolstoy

166. “I’m twelve years old. I run into a synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life but he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don’t understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me $600 for Hebrew lessons.”

— Woody Allen

167. “You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

168. “Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?”

— Rumi

169. “We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

170. “Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

171. “The meaning of life is to see.”

— Huineng

172. “People and stars are made of the same stuff.”

— Bill Nye

173. “Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.”

— Leo Tolstoy

174. “Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.”

— Linda Hogan

175. “This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what’s so.”

— Werner Erhard

176. “These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

177. “Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.”

— Max Lucado

178. “Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.”

— Elie Wiesel

179. “Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.”

— Peace Pilgrim

180. “So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that’s not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

181. “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”

— C. S. Lewis

182. “My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

183. “The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.”

— Niels Bohr

184. “Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

185. “Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.”

— Novalis

186. “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

— Aldous Huxley

187. “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

— Toni Morrison

188. “Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have – and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.”

— Philip Appleman

189. “The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.”

— Woody Allen

190. “Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

191. “Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”

— Khalil Gibran

192. “If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.”

— Albert Camus

193. “Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.”

— Jean Baudrillard

194. “It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.”

— Max Frisch

195. “Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”

— Pablo Neruda

196. “Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”

— Kurt Vonnegut

197. “To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things than came easily.”

— Jon Krakauer

198. “It’s now or never. I ain’t gonna live forever. I just wanna live while I’m alive. It’s my life.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

199. “It wasn’t until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

200. “If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.”

— T.D. Jakes