| 100% | SARTRE | 6 | He wrote "Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal" |
| 77% | ETERNAL | 7 | “Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being ___”: Sartre |
| 37% | TOLSTOY | 7 | He wrote the treatise on nonviolence The Kingdom of God Is Within You |
| 37% | FRANZKAFKA | 10 | He wrote "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy" |
| 32% | THORE | 5 | He wrote "It is life near the bone where it is sweetest" |
| 32% | NERD | 4 | Type of person Lewis was when he said "We have news for the beautiful people. There's a lot more of us then there are of you." ('84) |
| 31% | YEATS | 5 | He wrote, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity" |
| 31% | PLATO | 5 | He wrote "Knowledge is the food of the soul" |
| 31% | NOWHERE | 7 | You may be lost in the middle of it |
| 31% | ERASMUS | 7 | He wrote "In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king" |
| 31% | MLK | 3 | He wrote about “a positive peace which is the presence of justice,” for short |
| 31% | PETE | 4 | ___ Gray, former baseball outfielder who was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals despite having lost his arm |
| 31% | THOREAU | 7 | He wrote "In wildness is the preservation of the world" |
| 31% | STMARK | 6 | He is said to have founded the Church of Alexandria |
| 31% | ROOM | 4 | The emptier it is, the more of it you have |
| 31% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost" |
| 31% | KAFKA | 5 | He wrote "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die" |
| 30% | TSELIOT | 7 | He wrote "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" |
| 29% | WILDE | 5 | He wrote "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies" |
| 29% | ARES | 4 | He was on the losing side of the Trojan War |
| 29% | ALEXA | 5 | "___, what is the meaning of life?" (modern query) |
| 29% | SONDHEIM | 8 | Composer who wrote, about crosswords, "A good clue can give you all the pleasures of being duped that a mystery story can" |
| 29% | BELIEFS | 7 | Convictions a person has about the meaning of life |
| 29% | DESADE | 6 | He wrote "The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment" |
| 29% | ADLAIESTEVENSON | 15 | He said "In America, anybody can be president; that's one of the risks you take" |
| 28% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Source of the line "There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" |
| 28% | SEUSS | 5 | Author of the line "There is no one alive who is you-er than you" |
| 28% | ADRIENNERICH | 12 | Poet and feminist who wrote “The moment of change is the only poem” |
| 28% | SIRI | 4 | iPhone assistant who says that "42" is the meaning of life |
| 28% | PLATO | 5 | He wrote "No human thing is of serious importance" |