Ever more people today have the means to live,
but no meaning to live for.

As to the causation, of the feeling of meaningless, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying way, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.

people have enough to live by but nothing to live for;

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

[T]he paradox of civilization is that the more one is anxious to survive, the less survival is worth the trouble.

A Chinese philosophical work called The Secret of the Golden Flower says that “when purpose has been used to achieve purposelessness, the thing has been grasped.” For a society surviving to no purpose is one that makes no provision for purposeless behavior — that is, for actions not directly aimed at survival, which fulfill themselves in being done in the present and do not necessarily imply some future reward. But indirectly and unintentionally, such behavior is useful for survival because it gives a point to surviving — not, however, when pursued for that reason. To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

If You've Got Nothing Worth Dying For, You've Got Nothing Worth Living For

They died less from lack of food or medicine than from lack of hope, lack of something to live for.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness,

To live is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering

The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.