"I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."
― Joseph Campbell
Topic(s):
Experience
More From Joseph Campbell
- "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
- "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
- "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."
More In Experience
- "Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."― George Santayana
- "All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move."― Alfred Lord Tennyson
- "Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience."― Jean-Paul Sartre