#meaning_of_life

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

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What's the meaning of life? Other people. ↗

— John Green

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I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

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What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone? ↗

— Elliot Perlman

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Poetry doesn’t pay. But I need it. And so do you. ↗

— Cory Basil

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

— Albert Camus

#existentialism #meaning-of-life #nihilism #the-absurd #life

It is a great priviledge to hear from the mouth of an initiate what struggles we are ensnared in and what the meaning is of the sacrifices we are required to make before veiled images. Even if we should hear something evil, it would still be a blessing to see our task as something beyond a senseless cycle of recurrence. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

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The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever ↗

— Westminster Shorter Catechism

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That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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