“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
More from Joseph Campbell on Life
“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.”
“Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.”
“One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.”
“Only birth can conquer death—the birth , not of the old thing again, but of something new .”
“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”
“One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.”
“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Viktor Frankl
13 quotes“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone a...”