Answers Quote by W. H. Auden

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense,…

— Carl Jung

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Idealism, however impractical, gives a meaning to our existence.”

— Anirban Bose

There is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning - if not about…

— Freeman Patterson

So long as space remains, So long sentient beings' suffering remain, I will remain, In order to help, in order to serve... I am…

— Dalai Lama

I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the…

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“To what end the ‘world’ exists, to what end ‘man­kind’ exists, ought not to concern us at all for the moment except as objects…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man never ceases to seek knowledge about the objects of his experiences, to understand their meaning for his existence and to react to them…

— Paul Watzlawick

The meaning of existence is to evolve. To change. That is what we are biologically equipped for. To recognize and adapt to our ever-changing…

— Ruben Papian

To most humans, a universe consisting of particles banging about and doing what they have to do seems cold, barren, and without meaning. Meaning,…

— Milton A. Rothman

“All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression “metaphysical exile” had…

— Emil M. Cioran

“The meaning of existence was to preserve untarnished, undisturbed and undistorted the image of eternity which each person is born with - as far…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn