My reason for being here has always been apparent to me. I am here to be The Tenor.
--Dexter Gordon, Jazz Saxophonist

The meaning of life is listening to Pavarotti, feeling the sun on your face, drinking a bottle of wine, and then another.  The meaning of life is having a safe and healthy society, a happy family life, good health, a loving wife, work that you like, smelling the smell of a new car and the ocean air, being able to hit a bull's-eye, coming home with the fish and not another fish story.
--Carmine Pucci, Butcher

I have spent more time facing the reality of my execution than contemplating the meaning of my life.
I realize that not everyone shares my disregard for death, but it is an attitude to consider. Being an atheist and having no belief in an afterlife or in having to spend eternity in a burning hell has only helped to ease my mind.  I won't go so far as to say am lackadaisical about my impending death, but neither am I paralyzed by fear when I think about it.
--Raymond Clark, On Florida's death row for over 12 years

If we recognize love, it is by its beauty. If we recognize truth, it is by its beauty. The meaning of life is beauty. When we sense and experience beauty, we are looking straight into the face of the creator.
--Todd Rundgren, Songwriter and Record Producer

There is no meaning to life.  Trying to figure out an answer is beyond us all.  People always assume meaning comes through religion, the social structure, the family, work.  That's all an excuse for people not being able to cope with the fact that we're here and nobody knows our true purpose.  Anybody who tries to apply a direct meaning to life is just grabbing for a security blanket.
--Amy Keim, Leader singer in Nausea, an anarcho-punk band

Man can be defined as being born to transcend himself.
--Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Scholar, Native of Iran

I think that's what we're supposed to do:  Leave more than we've found, give more than we've received, love more than we've been loved.  And while we're here, we should always rewind the videotapes before returning them to the rental store.
--Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian, Soviet Emigre to the U.S

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