Meaning Quotes

And then a memory from Avalon surfaced in her mind, something she had not thought of for a decade; o...

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression a...

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Fast rather than slow, more rather than less--this flashy "development" is linked directly to societ...

But often, in the world’s most crowded streets,But often, in the din of strife,There rises an unspea...

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanin...

There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

You can put anything into words, except your own life

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial...

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades ...

We can't stop reading. Compulsively we find ourselves reading significance into dreams (we construct...

I like the multiplicity of books, because each book is different in the mind of each reader. It's th...

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity o...

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can...

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and...

The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful?

Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of...

How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I ...

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessa...

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equ...

The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of h...

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they...

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friend...

Khuda tujhe kisi toofaan se aashna karde,Ke tere behr ki maujon men iztiraab naheenMay God grant you...

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

That old woman taught me my catechism!" said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this...

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like ...

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Not every illness can be overcome. But many people allow illness to disfigure their lives more than ...

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper...

I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions...

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc...

What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps...

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the ...

who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means th...

You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly."You too," he said. "I also remember that you were...

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in soc...

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from ...

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I neve...

Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdraw...

nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothin...

Don't sign your namebetween worlds,surmountthe manifold of meanings,trust the tearstain,learn to liv...

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being wil...

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other c...

Man lives 'in' meanings, in that which is valid logically, esthetically, religiously. The most funda...

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ...

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact

Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.

Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust,And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things!Grow rich in...

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ...

I live my life in widening circleThat reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last o...

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of aby...

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being ...

Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forge...

Do you know why books such as this are so important? They have quality. And what does the word quali...

No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph rec...

So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfo...

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningle...

If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. ...

What distresses us is not loosing life, but losing what gives it meaning.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

100: Live This Day as if It Were Your Last.

100: Live This Day as if It Were Your Last.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous pl...

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children,...

Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.

I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find caree...

At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life...

God made you for a reason and your life has profound meaning! We discover that meaning and purpose o...

Science fiction" means different things to different people. "When I make a word do a lot of work li...

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but i...

The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this ...

. . . for meaning is never in the event but in the motion through event. Otherwise we could isolate ...

I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting i...

Life is mysterious as well as vulgar.

All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach ...

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean ...

To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of compariso...

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense...

...The editors of (i)Life(i) rejected Kerész'a photographs when he arrived in the United States in 1...

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon t...

Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, c...

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

And if ever I'm reduced to looking for a meaning to my life, you never can tell, it's in that old me...

[I]f you set out to mention everything you would never be done, and that's what counts, to be done, ...

Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?"He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to ...

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art ...

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

Yet I loathe the thought of annihilating myself quite as much now as I ever did. I think with sadnes...

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in ...

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods an...

If I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned, why, in the nam...

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.