Top 100 Quotes About Life Questions
#1. A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#2. Unlike in Daisy's novels, moments of precise reckoning are rare in real life; questions of misinterpretations are not often resolved. Nor do they remain pressingly unresolved. They simply fade. People don't remember clearly, or they die, or the questions die and new ones take their place.
Ian McEwan
#3. Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
Parker Palmer
#4. Every thinking person should have a list of life questions, and at the top of that list should be the question, Does God exist, and if so, what is He like?
Justin Buzzard
#5. Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?
June Jordan
#6. There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.
Fergie
#7. All of the larger than life questions about our presence here on earth and what gifts we have to offer are spiritual questions. To seek answers to these questions is to seek a sacred path.
Lauren Artress
#8. Each day I'd wake up to a stream of strangers' most important life questions and concerns. It was like knowing the plots to countless movies but never being able to see the ending.
Greg Dybec
#9. Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.
Margaret Atwood
#10. 'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.
Rainn Wilson
#11. Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.
Richard Blanco
#12. It seems to me that so much unhappiness in life comes not from a lack of answers, but from a lack of knowing the right questions to ask.
Rita Zoey Chin
#13. Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.
Gregory Benford
#14. Life's most important questions
Should always be written in ALL CAPS
Kim Holden
#15. Does it matter that people and things
Have words,
Have names?
If not,
Why read any book?
A litany of useless letters
Detached from bone, muscle.
Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,
Person
Real?
Stasia Ward Kehoe
#16. Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
#17. A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
Laura Linney
#18. Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.
Byron Katie
#19. Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
Timothy Keller
#20. In this method, you don't ask, What do I want from life? You ask a different set of questions: What does life want from me? What are my circumstances calling me to do? In this scheme of things we don't create our lives; we are summoned by life.
David Brooks
#21. We can only continue to promote invention, creativity and success by asking of ourselves, our situations and problems some key questions. What questions are you asking today?
Archibald Marwizi
#22. If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
Quentin Tarantino
#23. I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#24. Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been the home of my heart since I was a very young child, in whatever place I happened to live.
Roberta Gellis
#25. Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.
Max Lucado
#26. I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
Ian MacKaye
#27. Love does not ask many questions, because with thinking comes fear. This might be the fear of being scorned, of being rejected, or of breaking the spell. However ridiculous this may seem, that is how it is. This is why one does not ask, one acts.
Paulo Coelho
#28. There are so many paths in life. Some we choose, and some are chosen for us. We walk our paths without looking down and that's the life we lead. The only things you'll get from guessing where another path would have gone are questions you can't answer and heartache you can't ever soothe.
Abigail Roux
#29. The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit interesting places, and don't forget to ask questions. To be a writer you need to drink in the world around you so it's always there in your head.
Michael Morpurgo
#30. Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
Arthur Miller
#31. There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of Silence in all its multifacted, diamond splendor that heals all grief, all wounds, all questions.
Andrew Harvey
#32. I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.
Charles Kuralt
#33. Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.
Robert Towne
#35. It began with your eyes cast down, and mine looking right at you,
I watched you rule out hundreds of questions and accept only mine. I poured my stories into your eager heart, and you sparked faith inside the stubbornness of mine. Our beginning was written in the stars - how could it not be?
Emalynne Wilder
#36. Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe that life is to be loved, it is a gift.
Madeleine L'Engle
#37. The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.
Paul A. Kaufman
#38. Science may explain how humans came into being, but it has no answer to the slippery question of how humans should live. Only literature makes it possible to pose such questions in the first place. And if there is no answer, only literature can point to the impossibility of ever finding one.
Minae Mizumura
#39. Fear is a prison. A feeling of crippling power that spreads darkness within. It blinds. It questions. It takes over every decision we make, coloring it with doubt. Fear, for most of us, rules our lives, and it's only when you conquer it that you can truly live your life to the fullest.
Mia Asher
#40. The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions you are asking yourself
Anthony Robbins
#41. There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action.
J.R. Rim
#42. Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.
Elie Metchnikoff
#43. Many of us feel alone and assaulted by the meaninglessness of what we are doing. But, at such times, we are doing; the problem is not a lack of activity with a point, but rather questions about the point of the activity.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
#44. You spend your whole life looking for answers because you think the next answer will solve all your problems: make you a little less miserable, because when you run out of questions you don't just run out of answers ... you run out hope.
House
#46. My feelings about politics and literature and mathematics and the rest of life's minutiae can only be described through a labyrinthine of six-sided questions, but everything that actually matters can be explained by Lindsey fucking Buckingham and Stevie fucking Nicks in four fucking minutes.
Chuck Klosterman
#47. Life is diverse. Living is to live with difference. Anyone telling you that difference should be stamped out is stamping out life. Those people insisting that there are black and white answers to the difficult questions are stamping out the diversity that is inherent in life.
Omar Saif Ghobash
#48. Like everything else in life, these questions have no easy answers.
P. Wish
#49. We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
Ulrich Beck
#50. When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.
Joel Edgerton
#51. You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.
Lemony Snicket
#52. Ignorance is bliss-Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions.
Stephen Colbert
#53. We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our answers form listening to others reactions
Jeremy Aldana
#54. There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
Sam Harris
#55. It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!
Leo Tolstoy
#56. The outcome of a still veracitless life. Am I livin' it right?
John Mayer
#57. I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.
Brad Pitt
#58. One of the questions I get asked a lot is, 'What do you do to stay in shape?' My glib answer is, 'I play.' But I mean it. Sure, I go to the gym, but I don't spend my life there. Most of my activity is outdoors, whether it's basketball or mountain biking or rock climbing.
Jason Lewis
#59. With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer.
Anthony Liccione
#60. You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
Salman Rushdie
#61. The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.
Joshua Ferris
#62. WE, are ALL the 'Questions'..
WE, are the ONLY 'Answers'...
And, EVERYTHING 'In Between'...
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#65. If we want to live consciously, if we want to enjoy our life and not spend it simply completing the task of surviving, each of us must find answers to the questions concerning our destiny
Sunday Adelaja
#66. My life in politics has taught me that the only thing more difficult than fighting against our enemies is taking questions from my friends." Amid knowing chuckles, he promised, "Nonetheless, I shall do my best.
Richard North Patterson
#67. Ask broad questions and you'll get more than one answer. Ask specific questions and you'll get no answer.
S.D. Lawendowski
#68. I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.
Amy Poehler
#69. He said, "Al, that's the stupidest question you've ever asked in your life," but I don't reckon it was. I bet I ask way stupider questions that that every day.
J.L. Merrow
#70. Are you trying to be who Jesus wants you to be? Or do you trust him to bring out who he has already created you to be? It is vital to recognize the difference between these two questions because one leads to death, the other leads to life.
Emily P. Freeman
#71. It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations?
Al Gore
#72. My hope is that you will see this book for what it is...a conversation about the core questions that call us into humanity. Who am I? What am I? Who created me? What is my purpose? This is the story about the journey through the mysteries that make up the depths of life.
Julia J. Gibbs
#73. A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#74. It's not that we get all the answers in life. Its just that the questions disappear and there we flow with life - quenched yet thirsty; full yet empty.
Rashmit Kalra
#75. Life has a way of answering questions you didn't even ask.
Steve Maraboli
#76. I wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there is so much suffering in the world. As I grew with the song I realized I shouldn't limit these questions solely to God; I should ask those questions of others and of myself.
John Legend
#77. Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity ...
Norman Foster
#78. The greatest way to witness is through the life you live. Let the radiance of your Christian life be such that it will make [others] ask questions about your [faith].
Billy Graham
#79. When someone does
The wrong thing
Observe them as truth
Questions their actions ...
Those whom carry a selfish
Persona will never own their truthful faults,
But the one's of light will fight
To make their wrongs; right.
Nikki Rowe
#81. We still did not answer the questions that are important to us
Paulo Coelho
#82. The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
Will Durant
#83. When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.
Neal Shusterman
#84. If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.
Louise Erdrich
#85. Sometimes I ask myself questions... Sometimes I ask myself, is this your real life or is this just a pilot film? Is my life a thirty-nine week series or is it a special?"
"Whatever it is, your ratings are down... Five cents, please!
Charles M. Schulz
#86. Therefore, at any time of life, follow your own questions; don't mistake other people's questions for your own.
David Whyte
#87. What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.
Madeleine Bunting
#88. Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.
Gordon Livingston
#89. Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.
Roger Ebert
#90. Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?
Hillary Clinton
#91. The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.
George A. Sheehan
#92. What did he understand? Nothing. Where was he headed? Nowhere. What did he want? To know. What? A meaning. Why? A riddle.
Carson McCullers
#93. Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.
Robert Musil
#94. Life isn't always about answers ... sometimes the questions themselves can enlighten us.
T.A. Uner
#95. The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.
Joyce Carol Oates
#96. Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. Seuss
#97. It is often difficult to answer the same question repeatedly, but it is more difficult for them to realize they never seem to have answers to life's questions. Try to look at life from the perspective with which your loved one is living. It will help you see things differently.
Carol Howell
#98. What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?
-Jo, Boom
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
#99. Dreams won't always take you on a straight path to destiny but they're usually related to what your soul wants for you. They'll force you to ask yourself the hard questions, they'll kick your ass and more importantly, they'll turn you on.
Kelly Cutrone
#100. Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism comforts, for it raises no questions. There's no need to examine just how events fit in.
James Hillman
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