What is the purpose of life? There are as many answers to this age-old question as there are people, and they run the gamut from hopeful to nihilistic to, well, nonexistent. Here are just a few famous ...

Life as a journey; life as a quest; life as a purpose; life as… life? We have different ways of trying to make sense of what passing through time means—this doing-what-we-do within this box of years.