“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.”
More from Joseph Campbell on Life
“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.”
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
“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“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he h...”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smi...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your...”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”