Meaning Quotes

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect u...

I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and...

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer wou...

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer wou...

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to...

Silence can be a planrigorously executedthe blueprint to a lifeIt is a presenceit has a history a fo...

A poem can't free us from the struggle for existence, but it can uncover desires and appetites burie...

We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.

When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in ot...

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through ...

Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangibl...

After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the...

Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful co...

I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives...

So that's it. I've told you everything I know. Think clearly and think for yourself. Learn to use la...

And it's only symbolism puts magic and meaning into anything. You of all people should know that. We...

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own ...

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romant...

What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I tou...

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-call...

In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their m...

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The wr...

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce t...

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the i...

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a...

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And ...

There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a ...

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the mes...

There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may ...

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass...

We can stage our own act on the planet-build our cities on its plains, dam its rivers, plant its top...

I am no scientist. I explore the neighbourhood. An infant who has just learned to hold his head up h...

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? … Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the mean...

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

Our eulogies are always about the other stuff: what we gave, how we connected, how much we meant to ...

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everythin...

For it is beautiful only to do the thing we are meant for

Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of ...

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have...

That's what "meaning" is—a special additive like salt or garlic that could make even the most fetid ...

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards...

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier...

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the me...

In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.

God's love is based on nothing, and the fact that it is based on nothing makes us secure. Were it ba...

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the...

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by ...

It's basically a joke." "I think it's cool," Julian says. "It's all about control, right?" He consid...

I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t ...

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as...

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no me...

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and c...

There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain...

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Jackson," he mused. "Not a name either one of you was born to."Lizzie answered, "No. But beyond a ce...

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we...

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we...

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res...

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res...

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meanin...

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

But you possess one quality that no one else does. Oh? Your identity. Your history, deeds and situat...

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time e...

I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could ...

What would a person say to himself in the madness of sincerity? But it would be salvation. Thought t...

Meaning is always a latecomer. Beauty and music seduce us first; later ashamed of our own sensuality...

Sometimes life is intensely interesting and meaningful, and this meaning seems to be an objective fa...

You've a perfect right to call me as impractical as a dormouse, and to feel I'm out of touch with li...

Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden ...

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not ...

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and colo...

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over...

To live, is to suffer. To survive, well, that's to find meaning in the suffer.

…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have...

I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the ...

Who says we don’t want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with u...

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I...

But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there ar...

We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufa...

As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisph...

For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.

Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think....

Empiricism assumes that objects can be understood independendy of observing subjects. Truth is there...

When you win, the rules change, and you find you’ve lost

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death.

In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people r...

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands noth...

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...