meaning of life
Noun
Meaning
meaning of life
(philosophy, religion) A hypothetical answer to all of life's ultimate questions; the purpose or raison d'être of human life.
Examples
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
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.
The meaning of life is that it stops.
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.