"We're all just human beings trying to make sense of this strange and beautiful world we live in"
About this Quote
The phrase “trying to make sense” frames life as interpretation rather than conquest. That’s an artist’s premise. It suggests that confusion isn’t a personal failure; it’s the baseline condition. Coming from a musician associated with Pink Floyd’s grand themes - alienation, time, mortality, the machinery of power - the sentiment reads less like Hallmark comfort and more like a distillation of a catalog that’s always circled the same ache: we’re surrounded by noise, and meaning is something you assemble, not something you receive.
“Strange and beautiful” is the key pairing. The world isn’t redeemed by beauty, and it isn’t disqualified by strangeness; it’s both at once, and you have to hold the contradiction without demanding a clean narrative. That’s the subtext: wonder doesn’t require naïveté, and skepticism doesn’t have to curdle into cynicism. In an era addicted to hot takes, Gilmour offers a cooler, sturdier ethic - curiosity with a pulse.
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| Topic | Meaning of Life |
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Gilmour, David. (2026, January 15). We're all just human beings trying to make sense of this strange and beautiful world we live in. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/were-all-just-human-beings-trying-to-make-sense-171917/
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Gilmour, David. "We're all just human beings trying to make sense of this strange and beautiful world we live in." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/were-all-just-human-beings-trying-to-make-sense-171917/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"We're all just human beings trying to make sense of this strange and beautiful world we live in." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/were-all-just-human-beings-trying-to-make-sense-171917/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.







